[a][b]Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the [c]joy that was set before him, endured the cross, and despised the shame, and is set at the right hand of the throne of God.

[d]Consider therefore him that endureth such speaking against of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your minds.

[e]Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:2 He setteth before us, as the mark of this race, Jesus himself our captain, who willingly overcame all the roughness of the same way.
  2. Hebrews 12:2 As it were upon the mark of our faith.
  3. Hebrews 12:2 Whereas he had all kind of blessedness in his hand and power, yet suffered willingly the ignominy of the cross.
  4. Hebrews 12:3 An amplification taken of the circumstance of the person, and the things themselves, which he compareth betwixt themselves: for how great is Jesus in comparison of us, and how far more grievous things did he suffer than we?
  5. Hebrews 12:4 He taketh an argument of the profit which cometh to us by God’s chastisements, unless we be in fault. First of all because sin, or that rebellious wickedness of our flesh, is by this means turned.

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