Hebrews 12:1
Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,
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Job 8:10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Isaiah 60:8Who are these that come flying as a cloud, and as doves to their dove-cotes?
Ezekiel 38:16And thou shalt come up against my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land it shall be at the end of days and I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be hallowed in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
Matthew 10:37He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.
Mark 10:50And, throwing away his garment, he started up and came to Jesus.
Luke 9:59And he said to another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, allow me to go first and bury my father.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:1
The apostle, in this chapter, applies what he has collected in the chapter foregoing, and makes use of it as a great motive to patience and perseverance in the Christian faith and state, pressing home the argument, I. From a greater example than he had yet mentioned, and that is Christ himself, ver. 1-3 . II. From the gentle and gracious nature of the afflictions they endured in their Christian course, ver. 4-17 . III. From the communion and conformity between the state of the gospel-church on earth and the… Read the whole commentary →