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

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest ye be wearied in your souls and faint.

so also the Christ is offered once to take away the sins of many; and unto those that wait for him without sin he shall appear the second time unto saving health.

And I will wait for the LORD, who hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Woe to those that go down to Egypt for help; and trust in horses and place their hope in chariots because they are many and in horsemen, because they are valiant, but they did not look unto the Holy One of Israel, neither did they seek the LORD!

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no one else.

Therefore I will wait for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my saving health; my God will hear me.

And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of prayer, and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn over him as one mourns for his only son, afflicting themselves over him as one afflicts himself over his firstborn.

The next day John saw Jesus coming unto him and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

And this is the will of him that sent me, That every one who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.

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

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

from now on there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all those also that have loved his appearing.

waiting for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life

keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life,

The author

For it was expedient that he, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, preparing to bring forth many sons in his glory, should perfect the author of their saving health through sufferings.

And straightway the father of the child crying out with tears, said, Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief.

And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

God has exalted him with his right hand as Prince and Saviour, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

And how do we hear each one speak in our own tongue, with which we were brought up?

Finisher

for the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by which we draw near unto God.

For by one offering he has perfected for ever those that are sanctified.

so that ye lack nothing in any gift, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Endured

Therefore when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire, but a body hast thou prepared me;

From that time forth Jesus began to declare unto his disciples, how it was expedient for him to go unto Jerusalem and to suffer many things of the elders and the princes of the priests and of the scribes and to be killed and to be raised again the third day.

Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the princes of the priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death

And after they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him and put his own raiment on him and led him away to crucify him.

And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me; nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour, but for this have I come in this hour.

and to reconcile both with God by the cross in one body, having slain the enmity thereby;

and walk in charity even as the Christ also has loved us and has given himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.

who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a people of his own, zealous of good works.

he himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose wound ye were healed.

For the Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in spirit,

Despising

on the one hand ye were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and on the other ye became companions of those that were so used.

and others experienced cruel mockings and scourgings, and added to this, bonds and imprisonment;

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men and despised of the people.

Thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour; my adversaries are all before thee.

Thus has the LORD said, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the Gentiles abhor, to the slave of the tyrants, Kings shall see and be raised up as princes and shall worship because of the LORD, for faithful is the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen thee.

I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.

He is despised and rejected among men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with weakness; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Then they spit in his face and buffeted him, and others smote him with the staves,

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.

And he answered and told them, Elijah verily shall come first and restore all things and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things and be esteemed as nothing.

And Herod with his court despised him and mocked him and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe and sent him again to Pilate.

And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

who, when he was cursed, did not return the curse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously;

If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; for the glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you; certainly on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

And is

who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: We have such a high priest who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

who is at the right hand of God, having ascended into heaven, unto whom the angels and the authorities and powers are subject.

General references

The throne of glory, height from the beginning, is the place of our sanctification.

The disciple is not above his master, nor the slave above his lord.

And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him, Prophesy. And the servants struck him with the palms of their hands.

And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, And he was numbered with the transgressors.

And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.

If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

where they crucified him and two others with him, one on either side and Jesus in the middle.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, fighting against sin.