¹Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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,

¹Preto aj my, keď máme taký veľký oblak svedkov okolo seba, složme každé bremeno a ľahko obkľučujúci hriech a tak s trpezlivosťou bežme pred nami ležiaci beh o závod

²looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

²hľadiac ta na Veľvodcu viery a dokonávateľa Ježiša, ktorý miesto radosti, ktorá ležala pred ním, strpel kríž opovrhnúc hanbou a posadil sa po pravici trónu Božieho.

³For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.

³Lebo povážte toho, ktorý strpel od hriešnikov také sebe protirečenie, aby ste umdlievajúc neustali vo svojich dušiach.

⁴Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:

⁴Ešte ste sa nesprotivili až do krvi v borbe proti hriechu

⁵and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

⁵a zabudli ste na napomenutie, ktoré vám hovorí jako synom: Môj synu, nepohŕdaj kázňou Pánovou ani neumdlievaj, keď si ním káraný!?

⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

⁶Lebo koho Pán miluje, toho kázni, a švihá každého, koho prijíma za syna.

⁷It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not?

⁷Ak znášate kázeň, Bôh sa vám podáva jako synom. Lebo kdeže je nejaký syn, ktorého by nekáznil otec?

⁸But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

⁸Ale ak ste bez kázne, ktorej sa stali účastní všetci, vtedy ste cudzoložňatá a nie synovia.

⁹Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

⁹A potom: svojho tela otcov sme mali za kázniteľov a ostýchali sme sa; či sa tedy o mnoho viacej nepodriadime Otcovi duchov, aby sme žili?!

¹⁰For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness.

¹⁰Lebo tamtí na málo dní, podľa toho, jako sa im videlo, káznili; ale on na užitok, dostať podiel na jeho svätosti.

¹¹All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness.

¹¹A pravda niktoré káznenie, keď je prítomné, nevidí sa byť radostným, lež smutným; ale pozdejšie pokojným ovocím spravedlivosti odpláca tým, ktorí ním boli vycvičení.

¹²Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

¹²Preto posilnite opustené ruky a zomdlené kolená vzpriamte

¹³and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

¹³a robte priamu drahu svojimi nohami, aby to, čo je kuľhavé, nevybočilo, ale radšej bolo uzdravené.

¹⁴Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

¹⁴Stíhajte pokoj so všetkými a posvätenie, bez ktorého nikto neuvidí Pána,

¹⁵looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby the many be defiled;

¹⁵dozerajúc, aby niekto nezaostával od milosti Božej, aby nevyrástol nejaký koreň horkosti a nenarobil nepokoja a trápenia, a boli by ním poškvrnení mnohí!

¹⁶lest [there be] any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

¹⁶Aby nebol niekto smilník alebo obecný jako Ezav, ktorý za jeden pokrm predal svoje prvorodenstvo.

¹⁷For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father,] though he sought is diligently with tears.

¹⁷Lebo viete, že keď aj potom chcel zdediť požehnanie, bol odvrhnutý, lebo nenašiel miesta obratu mysle u svojho otca, hoci to aj so slzami snažne hľadal.

¹⁸For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

¹⁸Lebo ste nepristúpili k dotýkanému vrchu a horiacemu ohňom, k mrákave, ku tme, k víchrici,

¹⁹and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them;

¹⁹ku zvuku trúby a k hlasu slov, čo tí, ktorí ho počuli, prosili, žeby im viacej nebolo hovorené slovo,

²⁰for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

²⁰lebo nemohli uniesť to, čo sa im prikazovalo: Keby sa aj len zviera dotklo vrchu, ukameňujú ho alebo prebodnú strelou.

²¹and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:

²¹A bolo také strašné to, čo videli, že sám Mojžiš povedal: Predesený som a trasiem sa.

²²but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

²²Ale ste pristúpili k vrchu Sionu a k mestu živého Boha, k nebeskému Jeruzalemu a k myriadám anjelov,

²³to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

²³k slávnostnému shromaždeniu a k sboru prvorodených, ktorí sú zapísaní v nebesiach, a k Bohu sudcovi všetkých a k duchom spravedlivých zdokonalených

²⁴and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel.

²⁴a k prostredníkovi novej smluvy Ježišovi a ku kropeniu krvi, ktorá hovorí lepšie než Ábelova.

²⁵See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven:

²⁵Hľaďte, aby ste neodbyli toho, ktorý hovorí! Lebo ak tamtí neušli odbyjúc toho, ktorý hovoril na zemi slová božského zjavenia, tým menej my, ktorí sa odvraciame od toho z nebies,

²⁶whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.

²⁶ktorého hlas vtedy pohnul zemou, a teraz zasľúbil a povedal: Ja ešte raz zatrasiem nie len zemou, ale aj nebom.

²⁷And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

²⁷A to: ešte raz, jasne ukazuje na preloženie vecí, ktoré sa pohybujú, ako učinených, aby zostalo to, čo sa nepohybuje.

²⁸Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:

²⁸Preto, keď prijímame nepohnuteľné kráľovstvo, buďme vďační a vďakou svätoslúžme ľúbe Bohu s úctou a bázňou Božou,

²⁹for our God is a consuming fire.

²⁹lebo náš Boh aj je ohňom, spaľujúcim.