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title: "Hebrews 12 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "Exhortation to constancy under their crosses. The danger of abusing the graces… Hebrews 12 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Hebrews 12

Hebrews 12 is chapter 12 of 13 in the Letter to the Hebrews. Here are all 29 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Exhortation to constancy under their crosses. The danger of abusing the graces of the New Testament.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Hebrews 12 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.
2. Let us gaze upon Jesus, as the Author and the completion of our faith, who, having joy laid out before him, endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and who now sits at the right hand of the throne of God.
3. So then, meditate upon him who endured such adversity from sinners against himself, so that you may not become weary, failing in your souls.
4. For you have not yet resisted unto blood, while striving against sin.
5. And you have forgotten the consolation which speaks to you like sons, saying: “My son, do not be willing to neglect the discipline of the Lord. Neither should you become weary, while being rebuked by him.”
6. For whomever the Lord loves, he chastises. And every son whom he accepts, he scourges.
7. Persevere in discipline. God presents you to himself as sons. But what son is there, whom his father does not correct?
8. But if you are without that discipline in which all have become sharers, then you are of adultery, and you are not sons.
9. Then, too, we have certainly had the fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we reverenced them. Should we not obey the Father of spirits all the more, and so live?
10. And indeed, for a few days and according to their own wishes, they instructed us. But he does so to our benefit, so that we may receive his sanctification.
11. Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.
12. Because of this, lift up your lazy hands and your lax knees,
13. and straighten the path of your feet, so that no one, being lame, may wander astray, but instead may be healed.
14. Pursue peace with everyone. Pursue sanctity, without which no one shall see God.
15. Be contemplative, lest anyone lack the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and impede you, and by it, many might be defiled,
16. lest any fornicator or worldly person be like Esau, who, for the sake of one meal, sold his birthright.
17. For you know that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place for repentance, even though he had sought it with tears.
18. But you have not drawn near to a tangible mountain, or a burning fire, or a whirlwind, or a mist, or a storm,
19. or the sound of a trumpet, or a voice of words. Those who had experienced these things excused themselves, lest the Word be spoken to them.
20. For they could not bear what was said, and so, if even a beast would have touched the mountain, it would have been stoned.
21. And what was seen was so terrible that even Moses said: “I am terrified, and so, I tremble.”
22. But you have drawn near to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of Angels,
23. and to the Church of the first-born, those who have been inscribed in the heavens, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,
24. and to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Testament, and to a sprinkling of blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.
25. Be careful not to reject the One who is speaking. For if those who rejected him who was speaking upon the earth were not able to escape, so much more we who might turn away from the One who is speaking to us from heaven.
26. Then, his voice moved the earth. But now, he makes a promise, saying: “There is still one more time, and then I will move, not only the earth, but also heaven itself.”
27. And so, in saying, “There is still one more time,” he declares the transfer of the moveable things of creation, so that those things which are immoveable may remain.
28. Thus, in receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace. So, through grace, let us be of service, by pleasing God with fear and reverence.
29. For our God is a consuming fire.

## Hebrews 12 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Ideoque et nos tantam habentes impositam nubem testium, deponentes omne pondus, et circumstans nos peccatum, per patientiam curramus ad propositum nobis certamen:
2. aspicientes in auctorem fidei, et consummatorem Jesum, qui proposito sibi gaudio sustinuit crucem, confusione contempta, atque in dextera sedis Dei sedet.
3. Recogitate enim eum qui talem sustinuit a peccatoribus adversum semetipsum contradictionem: ut ne fatigemini, animis vestris deficientes.
4. Nondum enim usque ad sanguinem restitistis, adversus peccatum repugnantes:
5. et obliti estis consolationis, quæ vobis tamquam filiis loquitur, dicens: Fili mi, noli negligere disciplinam Domini: neque fatigeris dum ab eo argueris.
6. Quem enim diligit Dominus, castigat: flagellat autem omnem filium, quem recipit.
7. In disciplina perseverate. Tamquam filiis vobis offert se Deus: quis enim filius, quem non corripit pater?
8. quod si extra disciplinam estis, cujus participes facti sunt omnes: ergo adulteri, et non filii estis.
9. Deinde patres quidem carnis nostræ, eruditores habuimus, et reverebamur eos, non multo magis obtemperabimus Patri spirituum, et vivemus?
10. Et illi quidem in tempore paucorum dierum, secundum voluntatem suam erudiebant nos: hic autem ad id quod utile est in recipiendo sanctificationem ejus.
11. Omnis autem disciplina in præsenti quidem videtur non esse gaudii, sed mœroris: postea autem fructum pacatissimum exercitatis per eam, reddet justitiæ.
12. Propter quod remissas manus, et soluta genua erigite,
13. et gressus rectos facite pedibus vestris: ut non claudicans quis erret, magis autem sanetur.
14. Pacem sequimini cum omnibus, et sanctimoniam, sine qua nemo videbit Deum:
15. contemplantes nequis desit gratiæ Dei: ne qua radix amaritudinis sursum germinans impediat, et per illam inquinentur multi.
16. Ne quis fornicator, aut profanus ut Esau: qui propter unam escam vendidit primitiva sua:
17. scitote enim quoniam et postea cupiens hæreditare benedictionem, reprobatus est: non enim invenit pœnitentiæ locum, quamquam cum lacrimis inquisisset eam.
18. Non enim accessistis ad tractabilem montem, et accensibilem ignem, et turbinem, et caliginem, et procellam,
19. et tubæ sonum, et vocem verborum, quam qui audierunt, excusaverunt se, ne eis fieret verbum.
20. Non enim portabant quod dicebatur: Et si bestia tetigerit montem, lapidabitur.
21. Et ita terribile erat quod videbatur. Moyses dixit: Exterritus sum, et tremebundus.
22. Sed accessistis ad Sion montem, et civitatem Dei viventis, Jerusalem cælestem, et multorum millium angelorum frequentiam,
23. et ecclesiam primitivorum, qui conscripti sunt in cælis, et judicem omnium Deum, et spiritus justorum perfectorum,
24. et testamenti novi mediatorem Jesum, et sanguinis aspersionem melius loquentem quam Abel.
25. Videte ne recusetis loquentem. Si enim illi non effugerunt, recusantes eum, qui super terram loquebatur: multo magis nos, qui de cælis loquentem nobis avertimus.
26. Cujus vox movit terram tunc: nunc autem repromittit, dicens: Adhuc semel, et ego movebo non solum terram, sed et cælum.
27. Quod autem, Adhuc semel, dicit: declarat mobilium translationem tamquam factorum, ut maneant ea quæ sunt immobilia.
28. Itaque regnum immobile suscipientes, habemus gratiam: per quam serviamus placentes Deo, cum metu et reverentia.
29. Etenim Deus noster ignis consumens est.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 165: The Characteristics of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1161: How is the Liturgy Celebrated? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2683: Guides For Prayer ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 147: The Obedience of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 598: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2188: The Lord's Day ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1021: The Particular Judgment ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.” — St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Last Conversations, 1897 (On this theme: verse 1)
- “Tribulation is a gracious gift of God, which He sends to those He loves.” — St. Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort, III, 1534 (On this theme: verse 6)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 17: “He found” … That is, he found no way to bring his father to repent, or change his mind, with relation to his having given the blessing to his younger brother Jacob.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, Feb 3, 2027: Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Hebrews 12:4-7, 11-15
- Thu, Feb 4, 2027: Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Hebrews 12:18-19, 21-24
- Sun, Aug 20, 2028 (computed): Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, Hebrews 12:1-4
- Sun, Aug 27, 2028 (computed): Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13

1 more date through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).