Hebrews 12
1 We [know about] many people like that [who showed they trusted in God]. They are like a crowd of spectators [who are cheering for us inside a stadium] [MET]. Knowing that, we must put away all the things that hinder us, [as a runner puts aside everything that would hinder him because they are heavy] [MET]. Especially we must put away sinful actions that [hinder us, as a runner] sets aside clothes he does not need, clothes that would entangle him [MET]. Let us [wholeheartedly strive to achieve what God has planned for us, as someone] in a race wholeheartedly runs the course that is before him [MET].
İşte çevremizi bu denli büyük bir tanıklar bulutu sardığına göre, biz de her yükü ve bizi kolayca kuşatan günahı üzerimizden sıyırıp atalım ve önümüze konan yarışı sabırla koşalım.
2 And let us [keep our minds on] Jesus, [as a runner] keeps his eyes on [the goal] [MET]. Jesus is the one we should imitate in the way he perfectly trusted [God. When he died on] the cross he endured it as he suffered greatly [MTY], instead of [thinking about the things he would] rejoice about [later]. He disregarded being disgraced by [dying that way]. He is now sitting at the place of highest honor [MTY] at the throne [where God rules].
Gözümüzü imanımızın öncüsü ve tamamlayıcısı İsa'ya dikelim. O kendisini bekleyen sevinç uğruna utancı hiçe sayıp çarmıhta ölüme katlandı ve şimdi Tanrı'nın tahtının sağında oturuyor.
3 [Jesus] patiently endured it when sinful people acted so hostilely against him. Try to act the way he did, so that you do not give up [trusting] God or become discouraged.
Yorulup cesaretinizi yitirmemek için, günahkârların bunca karşı koymasına katlanmış Olan'ı düşünün.
4 While you have struggled against [being tempted to] sin, you have not yet bled [and died because of resisting evil, as Jesus did].
Günaha karşı verdiğiniz mücadelede henüz kanınızı akıtacak kadar direnmiş değilsiniz.
5 Do not forget [RHQ] these words [that Solomon spoke to his son, that are the same as God] would exhort you as his children: My child, pay attention [LIT] when the Lord is disciplining you, and do not be discouraged when the Lord punishes you [DOU],
Size oğullar diye seslenen şu öğüdü de unuttunuz: “Oğlum, Rab'bin terbiye edişini hafife alma, Rab seni azarlayınca cesaretini yitirme.
6 because it is everyone whom he loves whom the Lord disciplines, and he punishes everyone whom he accepts as his child.
Çünkü Rab sevdiğini terbiye eder, Oğulluğa kabul ettiği herkesi cezalandırır.”
7 It is in order that God may discipline you that he requires you to endure the disagreeable things [that happen to you]. [When God disciplines you] he is treating you as a father treats his children. All fathers [RHQ] discipline their children [LIT].
Terbiye edilmek uğruna acılara katlanmalısınız. Tanrı size oğullarına davranır gibi davranıyor. Hangi oğul babası tarafından terbiye edilmez?
8 So, if you have not experienced God disciplining you just like he disciplines all his other children, you are [not true children of God] [MET]. [You are like] illegitimate children; [no father disciplines them].
Herkesin gördüğü terbiyeden yoksunsanız, oğullar değil, yasadışı evlatlarsınız.
9 Furthermore, our natural fathers disciplined us [when we were young], and we respected them for doing that. So we should certainly more readily accept God our spiritual Father disciplining us, with the result that we live eternally [RHQ]!
Kaldı ki, bizi terbiye eden dünyasal babalarımız vardı ve onlara saygı duyardık. Öyleyse Ruhlar Babası'na bağımlı olup yaşamamız çok daha önemli değil mi?
10 Our natural fathers disciplined us for a short time in a way that they considered right, [but it wasn’t always right], but God always disciplines us [in a right way], to help us. He does it so that we may be holy as he is.
Babalarımız bizi kısa bir süre için, uygun gördükleri gibi terbiye ettiler. Ama Tanrı, kutsallığına ortak olalım diye bizi kendi yararımıza terbiye ediyor.
11 During the time that God is disciplining us, that does not seem to be something about which we should rejoice. Instead, it is something that pains us. But later it causes those who have learned from it to be peaceful and to [live] righteously.
Terbiye edilmek başlangıçta hiç tatlı gelmez, acı gelir. Ne var ki, böyle eğitilenler için bu sonradan esenlik veren doğruluğu üretir.
12 So, [instead of acting as though you were spiritually exhausted], renew yourselves [MET] spiritually.
Bunun için sarkık ellerinizi kaldırın, bükük dizlerinizi doğrultun, ayaklarınız için düz yollar yapın. Öyle ki, kötürüm olan parça eklemden çıkmasın, tersine şifa bulsun.
13 Go straight forward [in your Christian life] [MET], in order that believers who are uncertain about their faith [will imitate you] and not ([leave God’s way/] useless [to God]) [MET]. Instead, they will be spiritually restored [MET] as an injured and useless limb is restored.
14 Try to live peacefully with all people. Seek to be holy, since no one will see the Lord if he is not holy.
Herkesle barış içinde yaşamaya, kutsal olmaya gayret edin. Kutsallığa sahip olmadan kimse Rab'bi göremeyecek.
15 Beware that none of you stops [trusting in] God, [who has done kind things for us that we did not deserve] (OR, Beware that you have never [experienced] God kindly [saving you]). Be on guard lest any of you [act in an evil way towards others], because your doing that will [grow like] [MET] a root [grows into a big plant], and the result [of your] doing that will be that many believers will sin and become unacceptable to God.
Dikkat edin, kimse Tanrı'nın lütfundan yoksun kalmasın. İçinizde sizi rahatsız edecek ve birçoklarını zehirleyecek acı bir kök filizlenmesin.
16 Do not let anyone be immoral, or be irreligious as Esau was. He exchanged the rights he had as a firstborn son for only one meal.
Kimse fuhuş yapmasın ya da ilk oğulluk hakkını bir yemeğe karşılık satan Esav gibi kutsal değerlere saygısızlık etmesin.
17 You know that after he did that, he wanted to receive [what his father would promise to give him if] he blessed him. But [his father] was unable [to change what he had already done]. And Esau found no way to change things, even though he sought tearfully to do that.
Biliyorsunuz, Esav daha sonra kutsanma hakkını miras almak istediyse de geri çevrildi. Kutsanmak için gözyaşı döküp yalvarmasına karşın, vermiş olduğu kararın sonucunu değiştiremedi.
18 In coming [to God] you have not [experienced things like what the Israeli people experienced] at [Sinai] Mountain. [They] approached [a mountain that God told them they] should not touch. [They approached] a blazing fire, and it was gloomy and dark [DOU], and there was a hurricane/cyclone.
Sizler dokunulabilen, alev alev yanan dağa, karanlığa, koyu karanlık ve kasırgaya, gürleyen çağrı borusuna, tanrısal sözleri ileten sese yaklaşmış değilsiniz. O sesi işitenler, kendilerine bir sözcük daha söylenmesin diye yalvardılar.
19 They heard a trumpet sounding and they heard [God] speak. The result was that those who heard it pleaded for God not to speak to them like that again.
20 When [God] commanded them saying, “If [a person or] even an animal touches this mountain, [you] must [kill him/it by] throwing stones at him/it,” they were terrified.
“Dağa bir hayvan bile dokunsa taşlanacak” buyruğuna dayanamadılar.
21 Truly, because Moses was terrified after seeing what happened [on the mountain], he said, “I am trembling because I am very afraid!”
Görünüm öyle korkunçtu ki, Musa, “Çok korkuyorum, titriyorum” dedi.
22 Instead, [it is as though] you have come to [the presence of God in heaven] [MET]. [That is like what your ancestors did when they came to worship] God on Zion Hill, in Jerusalem, in the city of God who is all-powerful. You have come (OR, you are coming) to where there are countless angels, who are rejoicing as they have gathered together.
Oysa sizler Siyon Dağı'na, yaşayan Tanrı'nın kenti olan göksel Yeruşalim'e, bir bayram şenliği içindeki on binlerce meleğe, adları göklerde yazılmış ilk doğanların topluluğuna yaklaştınız. Herkesin yargıcı olan Tanrı'ya, yetkinliğe erdirilmiş doğru kişilerin ruhlarına, yeni antlaşmanın aracısı olan İsa'ya ve Habil'in kanından daha üstün bir anlam taşıyan serpmelik kana yaklaştınız.
23 You have joined all the believers [who have privileges like] firstborn sons, whose names [God] has written down in heaven. You have come to God, who will judge everyone. You have come to where the spirits of God’s people are, people who lived righteously [before they died], and who now have been made perfect [in heaven].
24 You have come to Jesus, who arranged a new covenant [between us and God]. You have accepted [what he accomplished when] his blood flowed [when he died on the cross. His doing that made it possible for God to forgive us]. That is better than the blood of Abel, [who just] wanted revenge because his brother Cain murdered him.
25 Beware that you do not refuse to listen to [God] who is speaking to you. The Israeli people did not escape [God punishing them] when [Moses] (OR, [God]) warned them here on earth. So we shall surely not escape [God punishing us] if we reject him when he warns us from heaven! [RHQ]
Bunları söyleyeni reddetmemeye dikkat edin. Çünkü yeryüzünde kendilerini uyaranı reddedenler kurtulamadılarsa, göklerden bizi uyarandan yüz çevirirsek, bizim de kurtulamayacağımız çok daha kesindir.
26 The earth shook [PRS] then when he spoke [MTY] [at Sinai Mountain]. But now he has promised, “I will shake the earth again, one more time, but I will shake heaven too.”
O zaman O'nun sesi yeri sarsmıştı. Ama şimdi, “Bir kez daha yalnız yeri değil, göğü de sarsacağım” diye söz vermiştir.
27 The words “again, one more time” indicate that things [on earth] will be shaken {that [he] will shake things [on earth]}, meaning that he will set aside all that [he] has created, in order that the things [in heaven] that cannot be shaken {that nothing can shake} may remain forever.
“Bir kez daha” sözü, sarsılanların, yani yaratılmış olan şeylerin ortadan kaldırılacağını, böylelikle sarsılmayanların kalacağını anlatıyor.
28 So, let us thank God that we are becoming members of a kingdom that nothing can shake. Let us worship/serve God in a way that pleases him by being greatly in awe [DOU] before him.
Böylece sarsılmaz bir egemenliğe kavuştuğumuz için minnettar olalım. Öyle ki, Tanrı'yı hoşnut edecek biçimde saygı ve korkuyla tapınalım.
29 Remember that the God we [worship/serve] is like a fire that burns up everything [that is impure] [MET]!
Çünkü Tanrımız yakıp yok eden bir ateştir.
