Hebrews 12:2

We run by looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who endured the cross for the joy ahead and now reigns at God's right hand. Christ is both the supreme example and the goal of faith.

Cross-references · 40

• Mic 7:7Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• 1 Pet 2:23–24Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
• Heb 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• Phil 1:6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
• Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• Heb 9:28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
• Titus 2:13–14Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
• John 6:40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
• Phil 2:8–11And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
• 1 Pet 3:22Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
• Phil 3:20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
• Acts 5:31Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
• Isa 45:22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
• Luke 24:26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
• Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
• Isa 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• 2 Tim 4:8Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
• Mark 14:36And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
• 1 Pet 4:14–16If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
• John 17:1–4These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
• Heb 8:1Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
• Rev 2:8And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
• Isa 8:17And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
• Heb 5:9And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
• Heb 13:13Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
• Acts 2:25–26For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
• Heb 12:3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
• John 12:27–28Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
• Isa 50:6–7I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
• Ps 138:8The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
• John 13:3Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
• Mark 9:24And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
• Eph 2:16And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
• Luke 17:5And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
• Matt 26:67–68Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
• Ps 22:6–8But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
• John 1:29The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
• Heb 2:7–10Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
• John 12:32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

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