Hebrews 12:17
Greek Text— Hebrews 12:17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
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When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.
He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”
When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewelry.
The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.
Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.
Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”
Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?
but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.
Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,
To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,
longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you.
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city.
but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
The city is square, and its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal.
Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’