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

Witnesses

Revelation 22:16

Let us lay

And the sin

Hebrews 10:35

And let us

2 Timothy 4:7

With patience

General references

Mark 10:50

Bible References

Seeing

And it was for faith that the men of old were renowned.

Witnesses

For I have five brothers to warn them, so that they may not come to this place of torture also.'

He states what he has seen and what he heard, and yet no one accepts his statement.

Many from that town came to believe in Jesus--Samaritans though they were--on account of the woman's statement--'He has told me everything that I have done.'

I have been writing to you briefly by the hand of Silas, our true-hearted Brother (for so I regard him), to urge upon you, and to bear my testimony, that in what I have written is to be found the true love of God. On that take your stand.

'I, Jesus, sent my angel to bear testimony to you about these things before the Churches. I am the Scion and the Offspring of David, the bright Star of the Morning.'

Let us lay

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

By that which fell among the brambles are meant those who hear the Message, but who, as they go on their way, are completely choked by this world's cares and wealth and pleasures, and bring nothing to perfection.

To another man Jesus said: "Follow me." "Let me first go and bury my father," said the man.

And then he added: "Take care to keep yourselves free from every form of covetousness; for even in the height of his prosperity a man's true Life does not depend on what he has."

"If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his very life, he can be no disciple of mine.

Hearing this, Jesus said to him: "There is one thing still lacking in you; sell everything that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall have wealth in Heaven; then come and follow me."

Be on your guard lest your minds should ever be dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and lest 'That Day' should come suddenly upon you, like a snare.

This I say, because you know the crisis that we have reached, for the time has already come for you to rouse yourselves from sleep; our Salvation is nearer now than when we accepted the Faith.

With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest reverence for God, aim at perfect holiness.

For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

Those who want to be rich fall into the snares of temptation, and become the prey of many foolish and harmful ambitions, which plunge people into Destruction and Ruin.

A soldier on active service, to please his superior officer, always avoids entangling himself in the affairs of ordinary life.

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting,

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;

And the sin

Do not, therefore, abandon the confidence that you have gained, for it has a great reward awaiting it.

And let us

Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

You were once making good progress! Who has hindered you from obeying the Truth?

Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.

Then indeed I shall know Christ, and the power of his resurrection, and all that it means to share his sufferings,

I have run the great Race; I have finished the Course; I have kept the Faith.

With patience

And so, after patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the fulfillment of God's promise.

You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God's will, you may obtain the fulfillment of his promise.

And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

But by that in the good ground are meant those who, having heard the Message, keep it in the good, rich soil of their hearts, and patiently yield a return.

To those who, by perseverance in doing good, aim at glory, honor, and all that is imperishable, he will give Immortal Life;

And not only that, but let us also exult in our troubles;

By our hope we were saved. But the thing hoped for is no longer an object of hope when it is before our eyes; for who hopes for what is before his eyes?

Rejoicing in your hope; steadfast under persecution; persevering in prayer;

Knowing, as you do, that the testing of your faith develops endurance.

Be patient, then, Brothers, till the Coming of the Lord. Even the farmer has to wait for the precious fruit of the earth, watching over it patiently, till it has had the spring and summer rains.

knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,

I, John, who am your Brother, and who share with you in the suffering and kingship and endurance of Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos, for the sake of the Message of God and the testimony to Jesus.

Because you kept in mind the story of my endurance, I will keep you in the hour of trial that is about to come upon the whole world, the hour that will test all who are living upon earth.

'Whoever is destined for captivity goes into captivity.' Whoever shall kill with the sword must inevitably be killed with the sword. (Here there is need for endurance and faith on the part of Christ's People.)

General references

The man threw off his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.