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Hebrews 12:13-22 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

13. And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.

14. Follow peace with all men, and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

15. Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder, and by it many be defiled.

16. Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau; who for one mess, sold his first birthright.

17. For know ye that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, although with tears he had sought it.

18. For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched, and a burning fire, and a whirlwind, and darkness, and storm,

19. And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard excused themselves, that the word might not be spoken to them:

20. For they did not endure that which was said: And if so much as a beast shall touch the mount, it shall be stoned.

21. And so terrible was that which was seen, Moses said: I am frighted, and tremble.

22. But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

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