1. Therefore, since we are encompassed with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
2. Let us look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
3. For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and your hearts give up.
4. You have not yet resisted to bloodshed while striving against sin.
5. And you have forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons: “My son, do not despise the discipline from the Lord,nor grow weary when you are rebuked by Him;
6. for whom the Lord loves He disciplines,and scourges every son whom He receives.”
7. Endure discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline?
8. If you are without discipline, of which everyone has partaken, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.