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 by it the elders obtained a good report.

A cloud

Who are these who fly like a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

And you shall go up, coming like a storm. You shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your bands, and many peoples with you.

Witnesses

for I have five brothers, so that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

and what He has seen and heard, that He testifies, and no one receives His testimony.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed upon Him because of the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that I ever did.

I wrote to you through a few words, by Silvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which you stand.

I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things to you over the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and Morning Star.

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.

And those which fell among thorns are the ones who, when they have heard, go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of life, and do not bear to maturity.

And He said to another, Follow Me! But he said, Lord, first allow me to go and bury my father.

And He said to them, Watch and keep yourselves from covetousness. For a man's life is not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.

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

And when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, Yet you lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me.

And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you;

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Then having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.

Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,

in order no longer to live in the lusts of men, but in the will of God the remaining time in the flesh.

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

And the sin

Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.

I was also upright before Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

And let us

Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

You were running well. Who hindered you that you do not obey the truth?

holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death;

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

With patience

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.

And you will be hated of all men for My name's sake, but the one who endures to the end shall be kept safe.

But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.

But those on the good ground are the ones who, in an honest and good heart, having heard the Word, keep it and bring forth fruit with patience.

indeed to those who with patience in good work are seeking for glory, and honor, and incorruptibility, everlasting life.

And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience,

For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope for it?

rejoicing in hope, patient in affliction, steadfastly continuing in prayer,

knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.

Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and the latter rain.

and with knowledge self-control, and with self-control, patience, and with patience, godliness,

I, John, who also am your brother and companion in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island that is called Patmos, for the Word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Because you have kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation which will come upon all the habitable world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.

He who leads into captivity will go into captivity. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed by a sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

General references

And casting away his garment, he rose up and came to Jesus.