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So Run Your Race With Endurance, Looking To Jesus

12 So-therefore we also[a], having so large a cloud of witnesses[b] surrounding us, having laid-aside every weight[c] and the easily-entangling[d] sin, let us be running the race being set-before us with endurance while looking-away toward the author and perfecter[e] of the faith[f]— Jesus— Who endured a cross for[g] the joy being set-before Him, having disregarded[h] the shame[i], and has sat-down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Consider His Endurance

For consider[j] the One having endured such opposition[k] by sinners against Himself, in order that you may not be weary in your souls, losing-heart—

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:1 The writer now applies the lesson from chapter 11, returning to the exhortation of 10:36-39.
  2. Hebrews 12:1 That is, witnesses of endurance by faith while awaiting the promises, such as those just mentioned.
  3. Hebrews 12:1 That is, such as would impede a runner.
  4. Hebrews 12:1 Or, easily-ensnaring, besetting, clinging.
  5. Hebrews 12:2 Or, finisher, consummator, completer.
  6. Hebrews 12:2 Or, of faith, of our faith.
  7. Hebrews 12:2 That is, to obtain; or, instead-of (the joy He had or could have had).
  8. Hebrews 12:2 Or, cared-nothing-for.
  9. Hebrews 12:2 Or, humiliation, disgrace.
  10. Hebrews 12:3 Or, compare, calculate in comparison.
  11. Hebrews 12:3 Or, dispute, hostility, rebellion.

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