Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, indeed, seeing that, we also, have encircling us, so great a cloud of witnesses, stripping off every incumbrance and the easily entangling sin, with endurance, let us be running, the race that is lying before us,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Job 8:10Shall, they, not teach thee—tell thee, and, out of their memory, bring forth words?
Isaiah 60:8Who are these that, As a cloud, do fly? and, As doves to their cotes?
Ezekiel 38:16Therefore wilt thou come up, against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land,— In the afterpart of the days, shall it be. that I will suffer thee to enter upon my land, To the end the nations may know me, when I hallow myself in thee before their eyes O Gog!
Matthew 10:37He that loveth father or mother above me, is not, worthy, of me,—and, he that loveth son or daughter above me, is not, worthy, of me;
Mark 10:50And, he, throwing off his mantle—springing to his feet, came unto Jesus.
Luke 9:59And he said unto another—Be following me! But, he, said—Suffer me, first, to depart, 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 →