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, thereby, well-attested were the ancients.

A cloud

Who are these that, As a cloud, do fly? and, As doves to their cotes?

Then shalt thou come up, Like a storm, shalt thou enter, Like a cloud covering the land, shalt thou be, - Thou and all thy hordes, and many peoples with thee.

Witnesses

for I have five brethren; - that he may solemnly testify unto them, lest, they also, come into this place of torment.

What he hath seen and heard, of, the same, he beareth witness, - and, his witness, no one, receiveth: -

And, out of that city, many, believed on him - of the Samaritans, - by reason of the word of the woman in bearing witness - He told me all things that ever I did.

By Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I account him, have I briefly written, unto you, exhorting and adding testimony - that, this, is the true favour of God - within which, stand ye fast!

I, Jesus, have sent my messenger, to bear witness unto you of these things, for the assemblies. I, am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and the morning Star.

Let us lay

He that loveth father or mother above me, is not, worthy, of me, - and, he that loveth son or daughter above me, is not, worthy, of me;

And, that which in among the thorns fell, these, are they who have heard; and, by anxieties and wealth and pleasures of life being borne along, are choked up, and bear not to perfection.

And he said unto another - Be following me! But, he, said - Suffer me, first, to depart, and bury my father.

And he said unto them - Mind and be guarding yourselves from all covetousness; for not, in one's abundance, doth his life spring out of his possessions.

If anyone cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, further also, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

And Jesus, hearing, said unto him - Yet one thing, unto thee, is lacking: Whatsoever thou hast, sell, and distribute unto the destitute, - and thou shalt have treasure in theheavens; and come! be following me.

But be taking heed unto yourselves, lest once your hearts be made heavy - with debauch and drunkenness and anxieties about livelihood, and that day come upon you suddenly,

And, this besides, - knowing the season - that it is an hour already for you out of sleep to be wakened; for, now, is our salvation nearer than when we believed:

Having therefore, these, promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

That ye were to strip off - as regardeth the former behaviour - the old man, who corrupteth himself according to his deceitful covetings,

Make dead, therefore, your members that are on the earth - as regardeth fornication, impurity, passion, base coveting, and greed, the which, is idolatry, -

But, they who are determined to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful covetings, the which, sink men into ruin and destruction, -

No one that is serving as a soldier, entangleth himself with the matters of his livelihood, that he may please him that hath summoned him to serve as a soldier;

Putting away, therefore, all vice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envyings and all detractions,

To the end that, no longer, in men's covetings, but in God's will, ye may live, the still remaining time.

Be not loving the world, nor yet the things that are in the world: if anyone be loving the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And the sin

Do not, then, cast away your freedom of speech, - the which hath a great recompense.

So became I blameless with him, and kept myself from mine iniquity.

And let us

Know ye not that, they who, in a racecourse, run, all, indeed, run, - but, one, receiveth the prize? So, be running, that ye may lay hold.

Ye were running well: - who hath hindered you, that, by truth, ye are not to be persuaded?

A word of light, holding forth, - as a matter of boasting unto me, for the day of Christ, - that, not in vain, I ran, nor, in vain, I toiled: -

To get to know him, and the power of his resurrection and fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death, -

The noble contest, have I contested, the race, have I finished, the faith, have I kept:

With patience

And, thus, being patient, he attained unto the promise.

For, of endurance, ye have need, in order that, the will of God having done, Ye may bear away, the promise.

And ye will be hated by all, because of my name, - but, he that endureth throughout, the same, shall be saved.

But, he that hath endured throughout, the same, shall be saved.

But, that in the good ground, these, are they who, indeed, in a noble and good heart having heard the word, hold fast, and bear fruit with endurance.

Unto them, on the one hand, who, by way of endurance in good work, are seeking, glory, honour and incorruption, life age-abiding,

And, not only so, but let us boast also in our tribulations; knowing that, our tribulation, worketh out endurance.

For, by our hope, have we been saved, - but, hope beheld, is not hope, for, what one beholdeth, why doth he hope for?

In hope, rejoicing, in tribulation, enduring, in prayer, persevering,

Taking note, that, the proving of your faith, worketh out endurance;

Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the Presence of the Lord: - Lo! the husbandman, awaiteth the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it, until it receive the early and the latter rain:

And, in your knowledge, self-control, and, in your self-control, endurance, and, in your endurance, godliness,

I, John, your brother, and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Jesus, came to be in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and the witness of Jesus.

Because thou didst keep my word of endurance, I also, will keep thee out of the hour of trial, which is about to come upon the whole habitable world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

If anyone carrieth into captivity, into captivity, he goeth away. If anyone, with a sword, doth slay, he must, with a sword, be slain. Here, is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

General references

And, he, throwing off his mantle - springing to his feet, came unto Jesus.