Run di Race, Dey Look Jesus
As that crowd dey watch, run. Wahala na our Papa discipline, e dey pain now but e go bear fruit later. Esau, wey sell im birthright for one food and e no fit undo am, na the warning. Dem no come reach one mountain wey dey make person fear, but dem don come Mount Zion.
12 1So, as plenty-plenty witnesses wey full like cloud dey surround us, make we comot every load and di sin wey dey hold us tight-tight, and make we run di race wey dem put for our front, with endurance wey no dey tire. 2Make we dey look Jesus, di One wey start and complete our faith, wey because of di joy wey dey im front, e endure di cross, e no send di shame, and now e siddon for di right hand of our Papa im throne. 3Tink well-well how e endure di kind wickedness wey sinners do am, so dat you no go tire or lose heart.
4For di way wey you dey struggle against sin, you never fight reach di point wey your blood go pour. 5You don forget di word of encouragement wey dey call you as pikin? “My pikin, no throway our Papa im correction, or lose heart wen e dey correct you. a a v5 Hebrews take Proverbs talk am to show sey our Papa im correction na di clear sign of im love — e dey train im sons and daughters as Papa, e no dey do am as judge wey dey far. 6Because our Papa dey correct di person wey e love, and e dey flog every pikin wey e accept.”
7Na because of correction you dey endure. Our Papa dey treat you as pikin; because which pikin dey wey im papa no dey correct? 8If you no get di correction wey all pikin dey share, den you be bastard, you no be true pikin. 9For dis life sef, we get papa for body wey dey correct us, and we respect dem. Shey e no fit sey we go bow pass to di Papa of all spirit, make we live? 10Dem correct us small time as e sweet dem; but e dey correct us for our own good, so dat we go fit share im holiness. 11For dat time, all correction dey look like pain, e no dey sweet; but later, e go bring di peaceful fruit of correct-and-holy way for di people wey e don train. 12So, lift up your hand wey don weak, and make your knee wey no get power strong, 13and make straight road for your leg, so dat di leg wey lame no go comot for joint but rather e go heal.
Run After Peace and Holiness
14Run after peace with everybody, and di holiness wey, if person no get am, e no go see our Papa. 15Dey watch well so dat nobody go miss our Papa im grace, so dat no root of bitterness go grow come cause wahala and make plenty people dirty, 16so dat nobody go do ashawo or be person wey no holy like Esau, wey sell im first-son right because of one plate of food. 17You know sey afta, wen e wan collect di blessing, dem reject am, because e no get chance to change wetin don happen, even doh e take tears dey find di blessing. b b v17 Esau take im first-son right change one plate of food (Gen 25) and later e no fit get im papa im blessing back, even as e cry for am (Gen 27:34–38).
18Because una no come to di mountain wey person fit touch, and fire wey dey burn, and darkness, and thick blackness, and heavy wind, 19and di sound of trumpet, and voice wey dey talk word, wey di people wey hear am beg sey make dem no talk anoda word give dem again. 20Because dem no fit bear di command wey sey: “If even animal touch di mountain, dem must stone am to death.” 21True-true, di thing wey dem see dey fearful sotay Moses talk sey, “I dey shake with fear.”
22But una don come to Mount Zion, di city of di Papa wey dey alive, di Jerusalem wey dey for heaven, and to plenty angel wey person no fit count wey gather with joy, 23and to di gathering of di firstborn wey dem write dia name for heaven, and to our Papa, di judge of everybody, and to di spirit of di correct-and-holy people wey dem don make perfect, 24and to Jesus, di middle-man of new Covenant, and to di blood wey dem sprinkle wey dey talk better word pass Abel im blood.
25Make you no refuse di One wey dey talk. If di people wey refuse di One wey dey warn dem for earth no escape, den how we go take escape, if we turn away from di One wey dey warn from heaven?
26Dat time im voice shake di earth; but now e don promise sey: “One more time I go shake, no be only di earth but di heaven sef.” c c v26 Dem take am from Haggai 2:6 — na our Papa im promise of one last, bigger shaking of everything wey e create.
27Di word “One more time” dey show sey di things wey dem go shake go comot—dat na di things wey dem create—so dat di things wey no fit shake go remain. 28So, as we dey collect kingdom wey no fit shake, make we hold thankfulness tight and give our Papa worship wey e go accept, with respect and fear, 29because our Papa na fire wey dey consume.
