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Friday, November 29th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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New Living Translation

Hebrews 12:13

Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Despondency;   Lameness;   Perseverance;   Straight;   Thompson Chain Reference - Paths, Right;   Right;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Feet, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Endurance;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Wisdom of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hebrews;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Children (Sons) of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discipline;   Discipline (2);   Feet;   Hebrews Epistle to the;   Sin;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Lame;   Path;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jehoiada;   Lame;   Path;   Straight;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 17;   Every Day Light - Devotion for May 6;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Live in the right way so that you will be saved and your weakness will not cause you to be lost.
Revised Standard Version
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and se that ye have strayght steppes vnto youre fete lest eny haltinge turne out of ye waye: yee let it rather be healed.
Hebrew Names Version
and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
New American Standard Bible
and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is impaired may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
New Century Version
Keep on the right path, so the weak will not stumble but rather be strengthened.
Update Bible Version
and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame not be turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
Webster's Bible Translation
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
English Standard Version
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.
World English Bible
and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And make strait paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.
Weymouth's New Testament
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put entirely out of joint
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and knees vnboundun, and make ye riytful steppis to youre feet; that no man haltinge erre, but more be heelid.
English Revised Version
and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
Berean Standard Bible
Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be debilitated, but rather healed.
Contemporary English Version
and walk a straight path. Then lame people will be healed, instead of getting worse.
Amplified Bible
Cut through and make smooth, straight paths for your feet [that are safe and go in the right direction], so that the leg which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather may be healed.
American Standard Version
and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
Bible in Basic English
And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.
Complete Jewish Bible
and make a level path for your feet; so that what has been injured will not get wrenched out of joint but rather will be healed.
Darby Translation
and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.
International Standard Version
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not become worse but rather be healed.Proverbs 4:26-27; Galatians 6:1;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
and right ways make for your feet, that the member which is lame may not wander, but be healed.
Murdock Translation
and make straight paths for your feet, that the limb which is lame may not be wrenched, but may be healed.
King James Version (1611)
And make straight paths for your feete, lest that which is lame bee turned out of the way, but let it rather bee healed.
New Life Bible
Walk straight ahead so the weak leg will not be turned aside, but will be healed.
New Revised Standard
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And make straight steppes vnto your feete, lest that which is halting, be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.
George Lamsa Translation
And make straight the paths for your feet, so that the weak do not go astray but are healed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, straight tracks, be making for your feet - that the lame member may not be dislocated, but, be healed rather.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And make ryght steppes vnto your feete, lest that which is haltyng, turne you out of the way: but let it rather be healed.
Good News Translation
Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled, but instead be healed.
Christian Standard Bible®
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed instead.
King James Version
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Lexham English Bible
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Literal Translation
"and make straight tracks for your feet," that the lame not be turned aside, but rather healed. Isa. 35:3; Prov. 4:26
Young's Literal Translation
and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and se that ye haue straight steppes vnto youre fete, lest eny haltinge turne you out of the waye, yee let it rather be healed.
Mace New Testament (1729)
clear the way for your feet, lest that which is lame should be quite out of joint, instead of being redress'd."
New English Translation
and make straight paths for your feet , so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.
New King James Version
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Keep your eyes on the trail so you will not wander off like a weakling into the brush, briars, and box canyons.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.
Legacy Standard Bible
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

Contextual Overview

4 After all, you have not yet given your lives in your struggle against sin. 5 And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children? He said, "My child, don't make light of the Lord 's discipline, and don't give up when he corrects you. 6 For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child." 7 As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? 8 If God doesn't discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. 9 Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn't we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever? 10 For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God's discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness. 11 No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it's painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way. 12 So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. 13 Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

make: Proverbs 4:26, Proverbs 4:27, Isaiah 35:3, Isaiah 35:8-10, Isaiah 40:3, Isaiah 40:4, Isaiah 42:16, Isaiah 58:12, Jeremiah 18:15, Luke 3:5

straight: or, even

lame: Isaiah 35:6, Jeremiah 31:8, Jeremiah 31:9

but let: Galatians 6:1, Jude 1:22, Jude 1:23

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:22 - General Deuteronomy 19:3 - General Deuteronomy 20:3 - let not Deuteronomy 22:4 - thou shalt surely 1 Samuel 23:16 - strengthened Ezra 10:4 - be of good Psalms 5:8 - make Psalms 31:24 - Be of Isaiah 57:14 - take Isaiah 62:10 - go through Micah 4:6 - will I Zephaniah 3:19 - and I will save Matthew 12:20 - bruised Matthew 18:14 - one Luke 22:32 - strengthen John 14:1 - not John 21:15 - lambs Acts 18:23 - strengthening Acts 20:35 - how that Romans 14:21 - whereby Hebrews 5:2 - them Hebrews 6:1 - let James 5:19 - and one

Cross-References

Genesis 11:29
Meanwhile, Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. (Milcah and her sister Iscah were daughters of Nahor's brother Haran.)
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you."
Genesis 12:5
He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth—his livestock and all the people he had taken into his household at Haran—and headed for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,
Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through the land as far as Shechem. There he set up camp beside the oak of Moreh. At that time, the area was inhabited by Canaanites.
Genesis 12:8
After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the Lord , and he worshiped the Lord .
Genesis 12:12
When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife. Let's kill him; then we can have her!'
Genesis 12:13
So please tell them you are my sister. Then they will spare my life and treat me well because of their interest in you."
Genesis 20:2
Abraham introduced his wife, Sarah, by saying, "She is my sister." So King Abimelech of Gerar sent for Sarah and had her brought to him at his palace.
Genesis 20:5
Didn't Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister'? And she herself said, ‘Yes, he is my brother.' I acted in complete innocence! My hands are clean."
Genesis 26:7
When the men who lived there asked Isaac about his wife, Rebekah, he said, "She is my sister." He was afraid to say, "She is my wife." He thought, "They will kill me to get her, because she is so beautiful."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 these feet to walk in; as the good old paths of truth, of the word and worship of God, of faith and holiness: and to make these paths "straight", is to make the word of God the rule of walking; to avoid carefully joining anything with it as a rule; to attend constantly on the ordinances of Christ; to go on evenly in a way of believing on him; to walk in some measure worthy of the calling wherewith we are called, and by way of example to others.

Lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; a lame member, as the Syriac version, a lame member of the body of Christ, the church; or a lame person, as the Arabic version, a weak believer; one that is ready to halt, either through the corruption of nature, or through the weakness of grace, or through want of light and judgment, and through instability and inconstancy; lest such an one should, through the irregular walk and conversation of others, be stumbled and offended, and go out of the way, and leave the paths of righteousness and truth. God takes care of, and has a regard to such, and he would have others also, Micah 4:6. The Ethiopic version reads, "that your halting may be healed, and not offended": that you yourselves may not halt and stumble.

But let it rather be healed; the fallen believer be restored, the weak brother be confirmed, the halting professor be strengthened, and everyone be built up and established upon the most holy faith, and in the pure ways of the Gospel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 horizontally, that is, level, plain, smooth. The meaning is, that they were to remove all obstacles out of the way, so that they need not stumble and fail. There is probably an allusion here to Proverbs 4:25-27. “Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.” The idea is, that by every proper means they were to make the way to heaven as plain and easy as possible. They were to allow no obstructions in the path over which the lame and feeble might fall.

Lest that which is lame be turned out of the way - A lame man needs a smooth path to walk in. The idea is here, that everything which would prevent those in the church who were in any danger of falling - the feeble, the unestablished, the weak - from walking in the path to heaven, or which might be an occasion to them of falling, should be removed. Or it may mean, that in a road that was not level, those who were lame would be in danger of spraining, distorting, or wrenching a lame limb; and the counsel is, that whatever would have a tendency to this should be removed. Divested of the figure, the passage means, that everything should be removed which would hinder anyone from walking in the path to life.

But let it rather be healed - As in the case of lameness, pains should be taken to heal it rather than to suffer it to be increased by careless exposure to a new sprain or fracture, so it should be in our religious and moral character. Whatever is defective we should endeavor to restore to soundness, rather than to suffer the defect to be increased. Whatever is feeble in our faith or hope; whatever evil tendency there is in our hearts, we should endeavor to strengthen and amend, lest it should become worse, and we should entirely fall.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 will be inevitably lamed, and so totally prevented from proceeding in the way; whereas, if you go in the even, proper path, though you have been wounded by getting into a wrong way, that which was wounded will be healed by moderate, equal exercise, all impediments being removed. The application of all this to a correct, holy deportment in religious life, is both natural and easy.


 
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