Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,
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Job 8:10Do they not shew thee — speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?
Isaiah 60:8Who [are] these — as a thick cloud they fly, And as doves unto their windows?
Ezekiel 38:16And thou hast come up against My people Israel, As a cloud to cover the land, In the latter end of the days it is, And I have brought thee in against My land, In order that the nations may know Me, In My being sanctified in thee before their eyes, O Gog.
Matthew 10:37'He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,
Mark 10:50and he, having cast away his garment, having risen, did come unto Jesus.
Luke 9:59And he said unto another, 'Be following me;' and he said, 'Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to 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 →