¹Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles 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 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.

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 who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

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

⁴You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

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

⁵and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by 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 loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” Proverbs 3:11-12

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

⁷It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

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

⁸But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

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 paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to 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, punished 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 seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

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

¹²Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, Isaiah 35:3

¹²Preto posilnite opustené ruky a zomdlené kolená vzpriamte

¹³and make straight paths for your feet, Proverbs 4:26 so that which is lame may not be dislocated, 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 will see the Lord,

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

¹⁵looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

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 sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

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

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.

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 you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

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

¹⁹the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

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

²⁰for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned TR adds “or shot with an arrow” [see Exodus 19:12-13] ”; Exodus 19:12-13

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 am terrified and trembling.” Deuteronomy 9:19

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

²²But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes 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 assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, 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

²⁴to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, Jeremiah 31:31 and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

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

²⁵See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns 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 shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.” Haggai 2:6

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

²⁷This phrase, “Yet once more,” signifies 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.

²⁸Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, 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. Deuteronomy 4:24

²⁹lebo náš Boh aj je ohňom, spaľujúcim.