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 that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their windows?

Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

Witnesses

For I have five brethren; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did.

By Silvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which ye stand.

I Jesus have sent my angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning-star.

Let us lay

He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

And that which fell among thorns are they, who, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

And he said to another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

If any man cometh to me, and hateth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Now when Jesus heard these things, he said to him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts:

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings,

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And the sin

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.

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

And let us

Know ye not, that they who run in a race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

Ye did run well, who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither 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 a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

With patience

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

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

And ye will be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.

But that on the good ground are they, who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

To them who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honor, and immortality; eternal life:

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

For we are saved by hope: But hope that is seen, is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing earnest in prayer;

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Be patient, therefore, brethren, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receiveth the early and the latter rain.

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

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

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

General references

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