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God Disciplines His Sons

Hebrews 12:13

In 9 translations

BSB
Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.Proverbs 4:26 (see also LXX)
KJV
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
WEB
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
ASV
and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
LSV
and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;
YLT
and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;
DBY
and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.
DRC
And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.
GNV
And make straight steppes vnto your feete, lest that which is halting, be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ποιεῖτε (“do make”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ποιήσατε (“do make”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: ποιεῖτε. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ποιεῖτε; Robinson–Pierpont read ποιήσατε.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ τροχιὰς ὀρθὰς ποιεῖτε τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν, ἵνα μὴ τὸ χωλὸν ἐκτραπῇ, ἰαθῇ δὲ μᾶλλον.
RP2018
καὶ τροχιὰς ὀρθὰς ποιήσατε τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν, ἵνα μὴ τὸ χωλὸν ἐκτραπῇ, ἰαθῇ δὲ μᾶλλον.
TR-Boyd
καὶ τροχιὰς ὀρθὰς ποιήσατε τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν, ἵνα μὴ τὸ χωλὸν ἐκτραπῇ, ἰαθῇ δὲ μᾶλλον.
SCR1894
και τροχιας ορθας ποιησατε τοις ποσιν υμων ινα μη το χωλον εκτραπη ιαθη δε μαλλον

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 4:26–27Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.
  • Galatians 6:1Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
  • Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
  • Isaiah 35:6Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
  • Isaiah 40:3–4A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will…
  • Jude 1:22–23And indeed, have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
  • James 5:16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
  • Jeremiah 31:8–9Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!…
  • Luke 3:5Every valley shall be filled in, and every mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.
  • Isaiah 42:16I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not…
  • Isaiah 35:8–10And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it— only those who walk in the Way— and fools will not stray onto it. No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it.…
  • Jeremiah 18:15Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
  • Isaiah 58:12Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.

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