Hebrews 12:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ And cut through and make firm and plain and smooth, straight paths for your feet [yes, make them safe and upright and happy paths that go in the right direction], so that the lame and halting [limbs] may not be put out of joint, but rather may be cured.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

Common English Bible

¹³ Make straight paths for your feet so that if any part is lame, it will be healed rather than injured more seriously.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ and straighten the path of your feet, so that no one, being lame, may wander astray, but instead may be healed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.

Hebrews 12:13 Cross References

Isaiah 35:3

Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees.

Isaiah 35:6

then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert;

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 58:12

Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in.

Jeremiah 18:15

But my people have forgotten me; they burn offerings to a delusion; they have stumbled in their ways, in the ancient roads, and have gone into bypaths, not the highway,

Luke 3:5

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth,

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the gentiles to live like Jews?”

Galatians 6:1

My brothers and sisters, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.

James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.