Hebrews 12:1

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Hebrews 12:1

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Summary

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Seeing

Hebrews 11:2

A cloud

Isaiah 60:8

Ezekiel 38:9

Witnesses

Revelation 22:16

Let us lay

And the sin

Hebrews 10:35

Psalm 18:23

And let us

2 Timothy 4:7

With patience

General references

Mark 10:50

Bible References

Seeing

For our ancestors won God’s approval by it.

A cloud

Who are these who fly like a cloud,
like doves to their shelters?

You, all of your troops, and many peoples with you will advance, coming like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

Witnesses

because I have five brothers—to warn them, so they won’t also come to this place of torment.’

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

I have written you this brief letter through Silvanus

(I know him to be a faithful brother) to encourage you and to testify that this is the true grace of God. Take your stand in it!

“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to attest these things to you for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright Morning Star.”

Let us lay

The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who, when they have heard, go on their way and are choked with worries, riches, and pleasures of life, and produce no mature fruit.

Then He said to another, “Follow Me.”

“Lord,” he said, “first let me go bury my father.”

He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

When Jesus heard this, He told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

Besides this, knowing the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

Therefore, dear friends, since we have such promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, completing our sanctification in the fear of God.

You took off

your former way of life, the old self

that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the recruiter.

So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

And the sin

So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

I was blameless toward Him
and kept myself from sinning.

And let us

Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.

You were running well. Who prevented you from obeying the truth?

Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing.

My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

With patience

And so, after waiting patiently, Abraham obtained the promise.

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

You will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

But the seed in the good ground—these are the ones who, having heard the word with an honest and good heart, hold on to it and by enduring, bear fruit.

eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality;

And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,

Now in this hope we were saved, yet hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Therefore, brothers, be patient until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.

knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness,

I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of God’s word and the testimony about Jesus.

Because you have kept My command to endure, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is going to come over the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

If anyone is destined for captivity,
into captivity he goes.
If anyone is to be killed with a sword,
with a sword he will be killed.

This demands the perseverance and faith of the saints.

General references

He threw off his coat, jumped up, and came to Jesus.