For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Parallel translations
- WEB For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
- BSB Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
- NKJV For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
- NASB For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
- NLT Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won’t become weary and give up.
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Quick answer
Consider how Jesus endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary or lose heart. Reflecting on his endurance strengthens ours.
Overview
The author urges careful reflection on Christ's patient endurance of opposition. Because Jesus bore far greater hostility without faltering, weary believers can take heart and persevere in their own trials. Fixing the mind on the suffering and steadfastness of Christ is the remedy for fainting souls, anchoring perseverance in his example.
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Cross-references · 40
- Gal 6:9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
- 2 Cor 4:16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
- Rev 2:3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
- 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
- Heb 12:2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Heb 3:1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
- John 15:18–24If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
- 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
- John 5:16And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
- 1 Sam 12:24Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
- Matt 10:24–25The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
- Heb 12:5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
- 2 Th 3:13But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
- Deut 20:3And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
- Luke 14:1And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
- 2 Tim 2:7–8Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
- John 8:52Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
- Luke 19:39–40And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
- Isa 40:30–31Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
- Isa 50:4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
- Prov 24:10If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
- John 18:22And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?
- Matt 21:15–16And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased,
- John 8:48–49Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
- Matt 21:46But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
- Luke 15:2And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
- Matt 11:19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
- Matt 22:15Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
- Luke 5:21And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
- Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
- Luke 16:14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
- Luke 13:13–14And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
- Luke 11:53–54And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
- Luke 11:15–16But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
- John 8:59Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
- John 7:12And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
- Luke 4:28–29And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
- Luke 2:34And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
- Matt 15:2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
- Matt 21:23And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
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