Hébreux 12
1 Nous donc aussi, puisque nous sommes environnés d’une si grande nuée de témoins, rejetons tout fardeau, et le péché qui nous enveloppe si facilement, et courons avec persévérance dans la carrière qui nous est ouverte,
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].
2 ayant les regards sur Jésus, le chef et le consommateur de la foi, qui, en vue de la joie qui lui était réservée, a souffert la croix, méprisé l’ignominie, et s’est assis à la droite du trône de Dieu.
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].
3 Considérez, en effet, celui qui a supporté contre sa personne une telle opposition de la part des pécheurs, afin que vous ne vous lassiez point, l’âme découragée.
[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.
4 Vous n’avez pas encore résisté jusqu’au sang, en luttant contre le péché.
While you have struggled against [being tempted to] sin, you have not yet bled [and died because of resisting evil, as Jesus did].
5 Et vous avez oublié l’exhortation qui vous est adressée comme à des fils: Mon fils, ne méprise pas le châtiment du Seigneur, et ne perds pas courage lorsqu’il te reprend;
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],
6 car le Seigneur châtie celui qu’il aime, et il frappe de la verge tous ceux qu’il reconnaît pour ses fils.
because it is everyone whom he loves whom the Lord disciplines, and he punishes everyone whom he accepts as his child.
7 Supportez le châtiment: c’est comme des fils que Dieu vous traite; car quel est le fils qu’un père ne châtie pas?
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].
8 Mais si vous êtes exempts du châtiment auquel tous ont part, vous êtes donc des enfants illégitimes, et non des fils.
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].
9 D’ailleurs, puisque nos pères selon la chair nous ont châtiés, et que nous les avons respectés, ne devons-nous pas à bien plus forte raison nous soumettre au Père des esprits, pour avoir la vie?
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]!
10 Nos pères nous châtiaient pour peu de jours, comme ils le trouvaient bon; mais Dieu nous châtie pour notre bien, afin que nous participions à sa sainteté.
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.
11 Il est vrai que tout châtiment semble d’abord un sujet de tristesse, et non de joie; mais il produit plus tard pour ceux qui ont été ainsi exercés un fruit paisible de justice.
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.
12 Fortifiez donc vos mains languissantes et vos genoux affaiblis;
So, [instead of acting as though you were spiritually exhausted], renew yourselves [MET] spiritually.
13 et suivez avec vos pieds des voies droites, afin que ce qui est boiteux ne dévie pas, mais plutôt se raffermisse.
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 Recherchez la paix avec tous, et la sanctification, sans laquelle personne ne verra le Seigneur.
Try to live peacefully with all people. Seek to be holy, since no one will see the Lord if he is not holy.
15 Veillez à ce que nul ne se prive de la grâce de Dieu; à ce qu’aucune racine d’amertume, poussant des rejetons, ne produise du trouble, et que plusieurs n’en soient infectés;
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.
16 à ce qu’il n’y ait ni impudique, ni profane comme Ésaü, qui pour un mets vendit son droit d’aînesse.
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.
17 Vous savez que, plus tard, voulant obtenir la bénédiction, il fut rejeté, quoiqu’il la sollicitât avec larmes; car son repentir ne put avoir aucun effet.
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.
18 Vous ne vous êtes pas approchés d’une montagne qu’on pouvait toucher et qui était embrasée par le feu, ni de la nuée, ni des ténèbres, ni de la tempête,
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.
19 ni du retentissement de la trompette, ni du bruit des paroles, tel que ceux qui l’entendirent demandèrent qu’il ne leur en fût adressé aucune de plus,
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 car ils ne supportaient pas cette déclaration: Si même une bête touche la montagne, elle sera lapidée.
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.
21 Et ce spectacle était si terrible que Moïse dit: Je suis épouvanté et tout tremblant!
Truly, because Moses was terrified after seeing what happened [on the mountain], he said, “I am trembling because I am very afraid!”
22 Mais vous vous êtes approchés de la montagne de Sion, de la cité du Dieu vivant, la Jérusalem céleste, des myriades qui forment le chœur des anges,
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.
23 de l’assemblée des premiers-nés inscrits dans les cieux, du juge qui est le Dieu de tous, des esprits des justes parvenus à la perfection,
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 de Jésus qui est le médiateur de la nouvelle alliance, et du sang de l’aspersion qui parle mieux que celui d’Abel.
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 Gardez-vous de refuser d’entendre celui qui parle; car si ceux-là n’ont pas échappé qui refusèrent d’entendre celui qui publiait les oracles sur la terre, combien moins échapperons-nous, si nous nous détournons de celui qui parle du haut des cieux,
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]
26 lui, dont la voix alors ébranla la terre, et qui maintenant a fait cette promesse: Une fois encore j’ébranlerai non seulement la terre, mais aussi le ciel.
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.”
27 Ces mots: Une fois encore, indiquent le changement des choses ébranlées, comme étant faites pour un temps, afin que les choses inébranlables subsistent.
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.
28 C’est pourquoi, recevant un royaume inébranlable, montrons notre reconnaissance en rendant à Dieu un culte qui lui soit agréable, avec piété et avec crainte,
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.
29 car notre Dieu est aussi un feu dévorant.
Remember that the God we [worship/serve] is like a fire that burns up everything [that is impure] [MET]!
