KJV 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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hebrews 12:13
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
WEB World English Bible
and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
ASV 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.
YLT 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;
Surrounding context — Hebrews 12
10 For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.
11 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.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
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καὶG2532 · kaiandτροχιὰςG5163 · trochiatrackὀρθὰςG3717 · orthosuprightποιεῖτεG4160 · poieōto do/make: doτοῖςG3588 · hothe/this/whoποσὶνG4228 · pousfootὑμῶν,G4771 · suyouἵναG2443 · hinain order that/toμὴG3361 · mēnotτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoχωλὸνG5560 · chōloslameἐκτραπῇ,G1624 · ektrepōto turn/wander awayἰαθῇG2390 · iaomaito healδὲG1161 · dethenμᾶλλον.G3123 · mallonmore
Cross-references
Proverbs 4:26-27Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.Galatians 6:1Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.Isaiah 35:3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.Isaiah 35:6Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.Isaiah 40:3-4The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.James 5:16Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.Jude 1:22-23And of some have compassion, making a difference:Luke 3:5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways [shall be] made smooth;Jeremiah 31:8-9Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.Isaiah 35:8-10And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it [shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err [therein].Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.Jeremiah 18:15Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;Isaiah 58:12And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
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