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

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Bible References

Looking

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.

so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him -- to salvation!

And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.

Woe to those going down to Egypt for help, And on horses lean, And trust on chariots, because many, And on horsemen, because very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of Israel, And Jehovah have not sought.

Turn to Me, and be saved, all ends of the earth, For I am God, and there is none else.

And I -- in Jehovah I do watch, I do wait for the God of my salvation, Hear me doth my God.

And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'

Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- the Lord Jesus Christ --

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --

yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ -- to life age-during;

The author

For it was becoming to Him, because of whom are the all things, and through whom are the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,

and immediately the father of the child, having cried out, with tears said, 'I believe, sir; be helping mine unbelief.'

And the apostles said to the Lord, 'Add to us faith;'

this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;

and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

Finisher

(for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.

for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform it till a day of Jesus Christ,

Endured

Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, 'Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

From that time began Jesus to shew to his disciples that it is necessary for him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be put to death, and the third day to rise.

'Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered to the chief priests and scribes,

and when they had mocked him, they took off from him the cloak, and put on him his own garments, and led him away to crucify him.

and he said, 'Abba, Father; all things are possible to Thee; make this cup pass from me; but, not what I will, but what Thou.'

Now hath my soul been troubled, and what? shall I say -- Father, save me from this hour? -- but because of this I came to this hour;

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it,

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

Despising

partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;

And I am a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people.

Thou -- Thou hast known my reproach, And my shame, and my blushing, Before Thee are all mine adversaries.

Thus said Jehovah, Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, To the despised in soul, To the abominated of a nation, To the servant of rulers: 'Kings see, and have risen, princes, and worship, For the sake of Jehovah, who is faithful, The Holy of Israel, and He chooseth thee.'

My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting.

He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.

Then did they spit in his face and buffet him, and others did slap,

then the soldiers of the governor having taken Jesus to the Praetorium, did gather to him all the band;

And he answering said to them, 'Elijah indeed, having come first, doth restore all things; and how hath it been written concerning the Son of Man, that many things he may suffer, and be set at nought?

and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,

who being reviled -- was not reviling again, suffering -- was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy are ye, because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;

And is

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

And the sum concerning the things spoken of is: we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,

A Psalm of David. The affirmation of Jehovah to my Lord: 'Sit at My right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.'

who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven -- messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.

General references

A throne of honour on high from the beginning, The place of our sanctuary,

'A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord;

and certain began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say to him, 'Prophesy;' and the officers were striking him with their palms.

and the Writing was fulfilled that is saying, 'And with lawless ones he was numbered.'

And there were also others -- two evil-doers -- with him, to be put to death;

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

where they crucified him, and with him two others, on this side, and on that side, and Jesus in the midst.

Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;