What does Hebrews 12:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And make straightc paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed."
Verse Hebrews 12:13. _MAKE STRAIGHT PATHS FOR YOUR FEET_] That is, Take the straight path that is before you, do not go in crooked or rough ways, where are stones, briers, and thorns, by which you wil...
AND MAKE STRAIGHT PATHS FOR YOUR FEET - Margin, “even.” The word used here means properly straight, in the sense of upright, erect; Acts 14:10; but it is used here in the sense of straight horizontall...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Looking away unto Jesus (Hebrews 12:1)_ 2. The Contradiction of sinners (Hebrews 12:3) 3. Chastened as sons (Hebrews 12:5) 4. Exhortations (Hebrews 12:12) 5. The end of faith (Heb...
With the example of Christ before them the readers are to show more constancy under their own sufferings. They are to think of Him whose life was so thwarted by wicked men, and thus nerve themselves t...
THE RACE AND THE GOAL (Hebrews 12:1-2)...
STRAIGHT. Greek. _orthos._ Only here and Acts 14:10. PATHS. Greek. _trochia._ Only here. BE TURNED OUT OF THE WAY. Greek. _ektrepomai._ See 1 Timothy 1:6. HEALED. Greek. _iaomai._ See Luke 6:17....
_lest that which is lame be turned out of the way_ Lit. "that the lame (i.e. lameness) may not be quite out of joint, but may rather be cured." The verb ἐκτραπῇ _may_mean "be turned out of the way," a...
CH. 12. An exhortation to faithful endurance (1–3) and a reminder that our earthly sufferings are due to the fatherly chastisement of God (4–13). The need of earnest watchfulness (14–17). Magnificent...
_RUN WITH ENDURANCE -- HEBREWS 12:4-17:_ Christians must be faithful, even during the worst of suffering. Christ suffered, even unto death. His sufferings are contrasted with the sufferings of the Heb...
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DISCOURSE: 2336 AFFLICTIONS THE FRUIT OF GOD’S LOVE Hebrews 12:4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto child...
AND MAKE STRAIGHT PATHS, &C.— Dr. Heylin paraphrases the verse thus: _Make even paths for your feet, that the lame ancle may not be sprained, but on the contrary recover strength;_ that is, says he, ...
B. _Perils threatening the life of faith. Hebrews 12:4-17_. 1. _Failure to respond to chastening. Hebrews 12:4-13_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:...
A CALL TO STEADFASTNESS (Hebrews 12:12, Hebrews 12:13) The didactic (teaching) portions of Scripture are very much more than abstract statements of truth: they are designed not only for the instructi...
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. From Proverbs 4:26, Septuagint, 'Mike straight paths for thy feet;' i:e., a str...
1 This cloud of "witnesses" consists of those just enumerated, who witness to the life of faith. It has no reference to any who are watching the Hebrews. A witness is one who testifies, and it is the...
12:13 feet, (o-7) See Proverbs 4:26 ....
THE CONTEST. ENDURANCE, HOLINESS, AND DIVINE COMMUNION PROPOSED TO THE SONS OF GOD Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who now encompass us, we ought to run our race patiently,...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 12 THE RIGHT WAY TO LIVE 12:1-29 JESUS IS OUR EXAMPLE 12:1-3 V1 Like a great cloud, there are a lot of *witnesses round us. Let us then...
AND MAKE STRAIGHT PATHS. — Quoted with some slight changes from the Greek translation of Proverbs 4:26, “ponder” (or, more probably, _make even_)_ “_the path of thy feet.” BE TURNED OUT OF THE WAY. —...
CHAPTER XIV. CONFLICT. "Therefore 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 wit...
The Hebrews are reminded that their sufferings are tokens of God's fatherly love and care....
ENDURE CHASTENING; SEEK HOLINESS Hebrews 12:9 If we are God's children, we will not look on suffering as a punishment. Chastening it may be, but not the penalty of sin. It is administered by our Fat...
After this rapid survey of the past, the writer makes his great appeal. It is that we "consider Him" who is "the Author and Perfecter of faith." The final appeals of the Epistle fall into four sectio...
AN EXHORTATION TO CONTINUE TO THE END OF THE RACE The writer urged the Hebrews to take strength from knowing God loved them and continue the race. To aid in this, he encouraged them to choose as stra...
And make (e) straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. (e) Keep a right course, and so, that you show examples of good life for othe...
_Wherefore life up the [4] hands, &c. Be fervent in piety, walk firmly in the way of virtue, make straight [5] steps, without declining to one side or the other, without halting or going astray, and s...
(3) For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. (4) Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. (5) And ye h...
The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
13._And make straight paths, etc. _He has been hitherto teaching us to lean on God’s consolations, so that we may be bold and strenuous in doing what is right, as his help is our only support; he now...
The epistle now enters on the practical exhortations that flow from its doctrinal instruction, with reference to the dangers peculiar to the Hebrew Christians - instruction suited throughout to inspir...
AND MAKE STRAIGHT PATHS FOR YOUR FEET,.... By "feet" are meant the walk and conversation of the saints, both in the church, and in the world, Song of Solomon 7:1 and there are paths made ready for the...
In these verses an entrance is made into the second part of the chapter, which is designed unto the application of the doctrine concerning sufferings, afflictions, and chastisements, before insisted o...
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. Ver. 13. _Make straight paths_] Seek not byways (those highways to hell), leap no...
HEB. 12:11-13. NOW NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT SEEMETH TO BE JOYOUS, BUT GRIEVOUS: NEVERTHELESS, AFTERWARD IT YIELDETH THE PEACEABLE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO THEM WHICH ARE EXERCISED THEREBY. WHE...
_Wherefore_ Since afflictions are so beneficial; _lift up the hands_ Whether your own or your brethren's; _which hang down_ Unable to continue the combat; shake off discouragement, sloth, and indolenc...
MAKE STRAIGHT PATHS FOR YOUR FEET; walk in the plain way of duty, and that not merely for your own sake, but for the sake of feeble and halting among your brethren; that they, by your good example, ma...
The object of God's chastening:...
How rightly now Chapter 12 admonishes the saints of God to act by faith; for where faith is in godly exer\-cise, every honorable and true responsibility will be willingly assumed, with the confidence...
STRAIGHT: Or, even...
12-17 A burden of affliction is apt to make the Christian's hands hang down, and his knees grow feeble, to dispirit him and discourage him; but against this he must strive, that he may better run his...
Make straight, smooth ways, such as have all stones of stumbling and rocks of offence removed, so as themselves may be set right in comfort, and duty, and walking; lest being lame or halting in their...
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‘Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees, and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way (or ‘put out of joint'), but rather be h...
Hebrews 12:12-17. Further exhortations. Hebrews 12:12. WHEREFORE (connecting the practical appeals, as is usual in this Epistle, with the reasoning and imagery of the previous verses) LIFT UP (make st...
STRAIGHT PATHS (τροχιας ορθας). Track of a wheel (τροχος, James 3:6 from τρεχω, to run), here only in N.T. "Straight (ορθας) wheel tracks."BE NOT TURNED OUT OF THE WAY (ινα μη εκτραπη). Negative...
Hebrews 12:3 I. Chastisement is sent by fatherly love. There, where we are most sensitive, God touches us. The thorn in the flesh is something which we fancy we cannot bear if it were to be lifelong....
May the Spirit of God graciously instruct us while we read this chapter! You know that, in the eleventh chapter, the apostle has pictured the ancient worshipers and their victories. Imagine that you...
CONTENTS: The Father's chastening of believers and its purpose. The difference between living under law and under grace. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Esau, Moses, Abel. CONCLUSION: Christians have a rac...
Hebrews 12:1. _Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses._ Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and...
LIFT UP YOUR LIMP HANDS. "Push ahead with all your strength!" Compare Job 4:1-6....
_Lift up the hands which hang down_ CHRISTIAN COMPASSION: The words of the text are taken from Isaiah 35:3, and are addressed to the believing Hebrews as an admonition to comfort and encourage one a...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 12:12 Using poetic language (perhaps drawn from Isaiah and Proverbs 1:1) the author encourages his readers to endure in the race they are running (see v. Hebrews 12:1). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 12:9. FATHER OF SPIRITS.—See Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16; Zechariah 12:1. “The Creator of all spirits, who is the Giver of life to all, who knows the spirit w...
EXPOSITION The exhortation, begun at Hebrews 10:19, but interrupted at Hebrews 11:1. I by the chapter on faith, is now taken up again with increased force from the array of examples that have been ad...
Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12. Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1), What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, w...
Galatians 6:1; Isaiah 35:3; Isaiah 35:6; Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 40:3; Isaiah 40:4; Isaiah 42:16; Isaiah 58:12; Jeremiah 18:15; Jeremiah 31:8;...
Make straight paths for your feet [τ ρ ο χ ι α ς ο ρ θ α ς π ο ι ε ι τ ε τ ο ι ς π ο σ ι ν υ μ ω ν]. After the LXX of Proverbs 4:26. The corresponding Hebrew means to tear, to cut into : hence to cut...
And make straight paths both for your own and for their feet — Remove every hinderance, every offence. That the lame — They who are weak, scarce able to walk. Be not turned out of the way — Of faith a...