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Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
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and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
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Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
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looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;
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lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
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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.
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For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,
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and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.
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(For they could not endure what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow."
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And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.")