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

¹Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

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.

²looking to the author and perfecter of faith — Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him — did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

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

³for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls — being faint.

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

⁴Not yet unto blood did ye resist — with the sin striving;

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

⁵and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

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

⁶for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;`

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

⁷if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

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

⁸and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

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?!

⁹Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising [us], and we were reverencing [them]; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

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

¹⁰for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

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

¹¹and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it — it doth yield.

¹²Preto posilnite opustené ruky a zomdlené kolená vzpriamte

¹²Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

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

¹³and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;

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

¹⁴peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

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

¹⁵looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

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

¹⁶lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,

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.

¹⁷for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.

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

¹⁸For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

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

¹⁹and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,

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

²⁰for they were not bearing that which is commanded, `And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,`

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

²¹and, (so terrible was the sight,) Moses said, `I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.`

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

²²But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,

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

²³to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,

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

²⁴and to a mediator of a new covenant — Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

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,

²⁵See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking — much less we who do turn away from him who [speaketh] from heaven,

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

²⁶whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, `Yet once — I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;`

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

²⁷and this — `Yet once` — doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;

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

²⁸wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

²⁹lebo náš Boh aj je ohňom, spaľujúcim.

²⁹for also our God [is] a consuming fire.