Bible verse
Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14 · BSB
The verses around it, from Hebrews 12.
10 Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
11 No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.
12 Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
13 Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
14 Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
16 See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.
18 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;
KJV
Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
ASV
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
ERV
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
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