Hebrews 12:3

For consider the man who endured such hostility against him by sinners, so that ye may not be weary in your souls, being disheartened.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

4Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 12:24Only fear LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart, for consider what great things he has done for you.

Isaiah 40:30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall.

Matthew 10:24A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a bondman above his lord.

Matthew 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebub the ruler of the demons.

Matthew 21:15But when the chief priests and the scholars saw the wonderful things that he did, and the boys crying out in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, they were indignant,

Matthew 21:46And when they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him as a prophet.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:2-4

Christ the Great Exemplar. ( a. d. 62.) 1 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, 2 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. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners… Read the whole commentary →

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