Hebrews 12:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² So then, brace up and reinvigorate and set right your slackened and weakened and drooping hands and strengthen your feeble and palsied and tottering knees, [Isa. 35:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

Common English Bible

¹² So strengthen your drooping hands and weak knees!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Because of this, lift up your lazy hands and your lax knees,

Hebrews 12:12 Cross References

Isaiah 35:3

Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees.

Hebrews 12:3

Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls or lose heart.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.

Ezekiel 21:7

And when they say to you, “Why do you moan?” you shall say, “Because of the news that has come. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will turn to water. See, it comes and it will be fulfilled,” says the Lord God.

Hebrews 12:5

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children— “My child, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when you are punished by him,

Ezekiel 7:17

All hands shall grow feeble, all knees turn to water.

Nahum 2:10

Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble; all loins quake; all faces grow pale!

Daniel 5:6

Then the king’s face turned pale, and his thoughts terrified him. His limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.

Psalm 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.

Zephaniah 3:16

On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: “Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands grow weak.