9. Furthermore, we have had human fathers, and they corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
10. For they indeed disciplined us for a short time according to their own judgment, but He does so for our profit, that we may partake of His holiness.
11. Now no discipline seems to be joyful at the time, but grievous. Yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness in those who have been trained by it.
12. Therefore lift up your tired hands, and strengthen your weak knees.
13. Make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame go out of joint, but rather be healed.
14. Pursue peace with all men, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord,
15. watching diligently so that no one falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up to cause trouble, and many become defiled by it,
16. lest there be any sexually immoral or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
17. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. For he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
18. You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and storm,
19. and to the sound of a trumpet and to a voice speaking words, such that those who heard them begged that the word not be spoken to them anymore.