For consider the one who endured such hostility by sinners against himself,[a] so that you will not grow weary in your souls and give up. You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your[b] blood as you[c] struggle against sin. And have you completely forgotten the exhortation which instructs you as sons?

“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
    or give up when you are corrected by him.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:3 *The plural reflexive pronoun can still be translated as singular; see Louw-Nida 92.25
  2. Hebrews 12:4 The words “shedding your” are not in the Greek text but are supplied for clarity
  3. Hebrews 12:4 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal participle (“struggle”)