Hebrews 12:1

Wherefore we also, having all these witnesses, who as clouds encompass us, will set ourselves loose from every weight, and the sin which at all time is prepared for us, and with perseverance will we run this race which is appointed to us.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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,

In Context

2And let us look unto Jeshu, who hath become the chief and the perfecter of our faith; who, for the joy that was before him, endured the cross, and unto shame delivered himself, and at the right hand of the throne of Aloha hath sat down.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:37Whosoever loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy (of) me; and whosoever loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy (of) me.

Mark 10:50But he, the blind, loosed his garment, and rose up, (and) came to Jeshu.

Luke 9:59And he said to another, Come after me. But he said to him, My Lord, permit me first to go 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 →

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