Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
12Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
Cross References
Proverbs 4:26Make the path of your feet level.Let all of your ways be established.
Isaiah 35:6Then the lame man will leap like a deer,and the tongue of the mute will sing;for waters will break out in the wilderness,and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 40:3The voice of one who calls out,"Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness!Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
Isaiah 58:12Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Jeremiah 31:8'Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.
Galatians 6:1Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also are not 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 →