Hebrews 12

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and…” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross…” Naming Jesus keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your…” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.” The line’s distinctive content terms include blood, resisted, striving. Its relationship to verses 3 and 5 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the…” The verse names Lord rather than leaving the action without a source. Watch whether the next line continues, answers, or contrasts that action.

“For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.” The line’s distinctive content terms include bastards, chastisement, partakers. Its relationship to verses 7 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather…” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be…” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable…” The line’s distinctive content terms include chastening, exercised, fruit. Its relationship to verses 10 and 12 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.” The line’s distinctive content terms include feet, healed, lame. Its relationship to verses 12 and 14 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and…” Naming Looking keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.” The number one makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of…” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness…” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be…” The line’s distinctive content terms include voice, intreated, sound. Its relationship to verses 18 and 20 shows what work it does in this passage.

“(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)” Naming Moses keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable…” Naming Jerusalem keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to…” Naming Judge keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that…” The promise, blessing, or covenant language needs its named recipient and scope. Those details prevent a personal word in the story from becoming a promise detached from context.

“See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also…” Naming Whose and Yet keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made…” Naming Yet keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with…” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“For our God is a consuming fire.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.