9. Moreover, we indeed had fathers of our flesh disciplining us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
10. For they indeed disciplined us for a few days as seemed best to them, but He does it for our profit, so that we might share His apartness.
11. And indeed, no discipline seems pleasant at the time, but grievous, but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12. So, strengthen the hands which hang down and the weak knees,
13. and make straight paths for your feet, lest the lame be turned aside, but instead, to be healed.
14. Pursue peace with all, and pursue apartness without which no one shall see the Master.
15. See to it that no one falls short of the favour of Elohim, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, by which many become defiled,
16. lest there be anyone who whores, or profane one, like Ěsaw, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
17. For you know that afterward, when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears.