Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12For this reason, lift up the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees;
14pursue peace with all, and the separation, apart from which no one will see the LORD,
Cross References
Proverbs 4:26Ponder the path of your feet, || And all your ways [are] established.
Isaiah 35:6Then the lame leap as a deer, || And the tongue of the mute sings, || For waters have been broken up in a wilderness, || And streams in a desert.
Isaiah 40:3A voice is crying in a wilderness: “Prepare the way of YHWH, || Make straight in a desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah 58:12And they have built the ancient ruins from you, || You raise up the foundations of many generations, || And one calls you, Repairer of the breach, || Restorer of paths to rest in.
Jeremiah 31:8Behold, I am bringing them in from the north country, || And have gathered them from the sides of the earth, || Blind and lame [are] among them, || Conceiving and travailing one—together, || A great assembly—they return here.
Galatians 6:1Brothers, even if a man may be overtaken in any trespass, you who [are] spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering yourself—lest you also may be tempted.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:5-18
The Benefit of Afflictions; The Use of Afflictions; Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father… Read the whole commentary →