Hebrews 12:12

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“Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, Isaiah 35:3”

— WEB

“Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;”

— KJV

“Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;”

— ASV

Bible Verses About Discouragement

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Isaiah 35:3 "Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees."
Hebrews 12:3 "For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls."
1 Thessalonians 5:14 "We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all."
Job 4:3-4 "Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands."
Ezekiel 21:7 "It 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 han…"
Hebrews 12:5 "and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, n…"
Ezekiel 7:17 "All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water."
Daniel 5:6 "Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck …"

Commentary

He addresses them as runners in a race, and pugilists, and warriors [CHRYSOSTOM]. The "wherefore" is resumed from Heb 12:1. lift up--In Isa 35:3, from which Paul here quotes, it is, "Strengthen ye the weak hands." The hand is the symbol of one's strength. ALFORD translates, "Put straight again the relaxed hands." English Version expresses the sense well. feeble--literally, "paralyzed"; a word used only by Luke, Paul's companion, in the New Testament. The exhortation has three parts: the first relates to ourselves, Heb 12:12-13; the second, to others, Heb 12:14, "peace with all men"; the third, to God, "holiness, without which," &c. The first is referred to in Heb 12:15, "test any man fail of the grace of God"; the second in the words, "lest any root of bitterness," &c.; the third in Heb 12:16, "Lest there be any fornicator or profane person," &c. This threefold relation often occurs in Paul's Epistles. Compare Note, see on Tit 2:12, "soberly, righteously, and godly." The Greek active verb, not the middle or reflexive, requires the sense to be, Lift up not only your own hands and knees, but also those of your brethren (compare Heb 12:15; Isa 35:4).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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