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For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
Hebrews 12:3 · New King James Version
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.
  • KJV For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
  • BSB Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
  • 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.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 40

  • Gal 6:9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
  • 2 Cor 4:16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
  • Rev 2:3You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
  • 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Heb 3:1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
  • John 15:18–24If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
  • 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
  • John 5:16For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
  • 1 Sam 12:24Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
  • Matt 10:24–25“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
  • Heb 12:5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
  • 2 Th 3:13But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing well.
  • Deut 20:3and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
  • Luke 14:1When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.
  • 2 Tim 2:7–8Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
  • John 8:52Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’
  • Luke 19:39–40Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
  • Isa 40:30–31Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
  • Isa 50:4The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
  • Prov 24:10If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.
  • John 18:22When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”
  • Matt 21:15–16But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,
  • John 8:48–49Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
  • Matt 21:46When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
  • Luke 15:2The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
  • Matt 11:19The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”
  • Matt 22:15Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
  • Luke 5:21The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
  • Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
  • Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
  • Luke 13:13–14He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, and glorified God.
  • Luke 11:53–54As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
  • Luke 11:15–16But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
  • John 8:59Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
  • John 7:12There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”
  • Luke 4:28–29They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.
  • Luke 2:34and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
  • Matt 15:2“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
  • Matt 21:23When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

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