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Hebrews 12:13-22 American Standard Version (ASV)

13. and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

14. Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

15. looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;

16. lest there be any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

17. For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father, though he sought it diligently with tears.

18. For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

19. and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them;

20. for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

21. and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:

22. but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

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