Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
World English Bible Updated
In The King James Version
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
In Context
13and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Cross References
Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.
Ezekiel 21:7It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord GOD.’”
Nahum 2:10She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
Hebrews 12:3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
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 →