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,

¹Zatorej tudi mi, ker imamo tak oblak prič okrog sebe, vrzimo raz sebe vsako breme in greh, ki nas lahko oklene, in tecimo s potrpežljivostjo v naloženem nam boju,

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.

²ozirajoč se v začetnika in dovrševalca vere, v Jezusa, ki je za namenjeno mu veselje pretrpel križ, ne meneč se za sramoto, in je sedel na desnico Božjega prestola.

³For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

³Pomislite vendar nanj, ki je prestal od grešnikov toliko nasprotovanja proti sebi, da ne omagate, pešajoč v dušah svojih.

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

⁴Niste se še do krvi ustavljali v boju z grehom,

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;

⁵in pozabili ste tolažbe, ki govori z vami kakor s sinovi: „Sin moj, ne preziraj strahovanja Gospodovega in ne omaguj, ko te kara.

⁶For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” Proverbs 3:11-12

⁶Kogar namreč ljubi Gospod, tega strahuje in tepe vsakega sina, katerega sprejema“.

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?

⁷Ako trpite, je vam v odgojo. Bog se vam kaže kakor otrokom; kajti kje je sin, ki ga ne bi strahoval oče?

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

⁸Ako ste pa brez strahovanja, ki so ga deležni postali vsi, torej ste nezakonski otroci in ne sinovi.

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?

⁹Dalje, ako smo imeli telesne roditelje, ki so nas strahovali, in smo se jih bali, ali se ne bomo mnogo bolj pokorili Očetu duhov, da bomo živeli?

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.

¹⁰Oni so nas namreč strahovali za malo dni, kakor se jim je prav zdelo, ta pa nam v korist, da bodemo deležni svetosti njegove.

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.

¹¹Vsako strahovanje seveda se nam za sedaj ne zdi veselje, ampak žalost, pozneje pa daje njim, ki jih je vadilo, miru poln sad pravičnosti.

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

¹²Zato „dvignite omagujoče roke in šibeča se kolena“,

¹³and make straight paths for your feet, Proverbs 4:26 so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

¹³in „ravne tire delajte svojim nogam“, da se hromo še bolj ne pohabi, temuč ozdravi.

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

¹⁴Iščite miru z vsemi in posvečenja, brez katerega ne bo nihče videl Gospoda;

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;

¹⁵pazite, da se kdo ne odvrne od milosti Božje in da ne požene kaka korenina bridkosti in ne dela napotja in jih mnogo ne skruni;

¹⁶lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

¹⁶da ne bode kdo nečistnik ali skrunilec svetega kakor Ezav, ki je za eno jed prodal prvorojenstvo svoje.

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.

¹⁷Kajti veste, da je bil tudi, ko je hotel pozneje zadobiti blagoslov, zavržen (ni dosegel namreč izpremene misli), dasi ga je želel s solzami.

¹⁸For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

¹⁸Kajti niste pristopili k dotakljivi gori in h gorečemu ognju in k oblačju in temi in nevihti

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,

¹⁹in k trombe donenju in glasu besed, katerega poslušalci so prosili, da se jim nobena beseda več ne govori

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

²⁰(niso namreč mogli prenesti ukaza: „Tudi če se žival dotakne gore, bodi s kamenjem pobita“,

²¹and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.” Deuteronomy 9:19

²¹in tako strašna je bila prikazen, da je Mojzes rekel: V strahu sem in trepetu):

²²But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

²²temuč pristopili ste h gori Sionu in k mestu Boga živega, Jeruzalemu nebeškemu, k nebrojni množici angelov,

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 velikemu zborovanju in cerkvi prvorojencev, zapisanih v nebesih, in k Bogu, sodniku vseh, in k duhovom pravičnih, ki so dosegli popolnost,

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

²⁴in k sredniku nove zaveze, Jezusu, in h krvi pokropljenja, ki govori boljše kakor Abelova.

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,

²⁵Glejte, da se ne branite govorečega; kajti če niso ubežali kazni oni, ki so se branili njega, ki je oznanjal Božje ukaze na zemlji, veliko manj ubežimo mi, ako se obračamo od njega, ki govori z nebes.

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

²⁶Glas njegov je potresel zemljo tedaj, sedaj pa je obljubil, govoreč: „Še enkrat potresem ne samo zemlje, ampak tudi nebo“.

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.

²⁷To: „še enkrat“ pomeni premembo tistega, kar je bilo potreseno kakor kaj narejenega, da ostane, kar je nepotreseno.

²⁸Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

²⁸Zato, ker prejemamo kraljestvo nepotresljivo, imejmo milost, po kateri služimo po volji Bogu, s svetim strahom in grozo;kajti tudi „naš Bog je ogenj, ki uničuje“.

²⁹for our God is a consuming fire. Deuteronomy 4:24

²⁹kajti tudi „naš Bog je ogenj, ki uničuje“.