Hebrews 12:1

Surrounded by these witnesses, we should throw off every hindrance and besetting sin and run our race with endurance. The faithful before us spur us to persevere.

Cross-references · 40

• 2 Tim 4:7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
• 1 Cor 9:24–27Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
• Phil 2:16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
• Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Heb 10:35–39Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
• Phil 3:10–14That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
• Gal 5:7Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
• 1 Pet 2:1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Col 3:5–8Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
• Rom 12:12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
• Eph 4:22–24That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Rom 13:11–14And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
• 2 Tim 2:4No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
• Rom 5:3–5And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
• Jas 1:3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
• 1 Jn 2:15–16Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Matt 24:13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
• Matt 10:22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
• Rom 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• Heb 6:15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
• Rom 8:24–25For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
• Rev 3:10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
• Luke 12:15And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
• 1 Pet 4:2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• 2 Pet 1:6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
• Luke 8:14–15And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
• Matt 10:37–38He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
• 1 Tim 6:9–10But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• Luke 14:26–33If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
• Luke 18:22–25Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
• Luke 9:59–62And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
• Rev 22:16I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
• 1 Pet 5:12By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
• Rev 1:9I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• Luke 16:28For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
• Heb 11:2–38For by it the elders obtained a good report.
• Rev 13:10He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
• Isa 60:8Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

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