Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a large cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and easily entangling sin. Let us patiently run the race that is placed before us.
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Job 8:10Will they not teach you and tell you? 1 Will they not speak words from their hearts? 1
Isaiah 60:8Who are these who fly along like a cloud, and like the doves to their shelters? 1
Ezekiel 38:16You will attack my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, so the nations might know me when I show myself through you, Gog, to be holy before their eyes.
Matthew 10:37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Mark 10:50He threw aside his coat, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
Luke 9:59Then he said to another, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, first let me go 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 →