Hebrews 12:2

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Hebrews 12:2

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Summary

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Looking

The author

Acts 2:8

Finisher

Endured

Despising

And is

General references

Bible References

Looking

Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.

I will wait patiently for the Lord, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.

Those who go down to Egypt for help are as good as dead, those who rely on war horses, and trust in Egypt's many chariots and in their many, many horsemen. But they do not rely on the Holy One of Israel and do not seek help from the Lord.

Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth's remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.

But I will keep watching for the Lord; I will wait for the God who delivers me. My God will hear my lament.

"I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

For this is the will of my Father -- for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

But our citizenship is in heaven -- and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Finally the crown of righteousness is reserved for me. The Lord, the righteous Judge, will award it to me in that day -- and not to me only, but also to all who have set their affection on his appearing.

as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life --

maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.

The author

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Immediately the father of the boy cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!"

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

God exalted him to his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

Finisher

for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

Endured

So when he came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

"Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. They will condemn him to death,

When they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will."

"Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

Despising

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.

You know how I am insulted, humiliated and disgraced; you can see all my enemies.

This is what the Lord, the protector of Israel, their Holy One, says to the one who is despised and rejected by nations, a servant of rulers: "Kings will see and rise in respect, princes will bow down, because of the faithful Lord, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you."

I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.

Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,

Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the governor's residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

He said to them, "Elijah does indeed come first, and restores all things. And why is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be despised?

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God, rests on you.

And is

The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We have such a high priest, one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

A psalm of David. Here is the Lord's proclamation to my lord: "Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!"

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

General references

Then I said, "Lord, from the very beginning you have been seated on your glorious throne on high. You are the place where we can find refuge.

"A disciple is not greater than his teacher, nor a slave greater than his master.

Then some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying, "Prophesy!" The guards also took him and beat him.

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Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.

"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

There they crucified him along with two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.

You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.