12:1 
    [kjv]  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
    [bbe]  For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
12:2  
    [kjv]  Looking unto 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 set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
    [bbe]  Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
12:3  
    [kjv]  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
    [bbe]  Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.
12:4  
    [kjv]  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
    [bbe]  Till now you have not given your blood in your fight against sin:
12:5
    [kjv]  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
    [bbe]  And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;
12:6  
    [kjv]  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
    [bbe]  For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.
12:7  
    [kjv]  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
    [bbe]  It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?
12:8  
    [kjv]  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
    [bbe]  But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.
12:9  
    [kjv]  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
    [bbe]  And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
12:10 
    [kjv]  For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
    [bbe]  For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.
12:11  
    [kjv]  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
    [bbe]  At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.
12:12
    [kjv]  Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
    [bbe]  For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,
12:13  
    [kjv]  And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
    [bbe]  And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.
12:14
    [kjv]  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
    [bbe]  Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;
12:15  
    [kjv]  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
    [bbe]  Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; fo............