1. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,
and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2. Looking 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.
3. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself,

1. through endurance let us traverse

                the struggle lying ahead for us,

                                2. fixing our eyes on the initiator

                                and perfecter of the faith, Jesus,

                who, for the sake of the joy lying ahead of him,

endured the cross, despising its shame, and took his seat on the right of the throne of God.

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32. And what still may I say?

                For the time will fail me giving an account concerning Gideon,
                Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, as well as Samuel and the prophets,

                                33. who through faith conquered kingdoms, worked rightouesness,
                                obtained promises,

8. By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance,
obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country,
dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

1. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2. For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God,
        so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

38. "My just one from faith will live,

                and if he draws back

                                my soul does not take pleasure in him".

                39. But we are not of drawing back into destruction,

but of faith into preservation of the soul.

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32. Remember the previous days, in which, having been enlightened,
you endured much conflict of sufferings,

                33. on the one hand publicly exposed to reproaches and afflictions,

                on the other hand becoming partners of those so treated.

34. For you even suffered with the prisoners.

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31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

27. But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation,
which shall devour the adversaries.

                28. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

                        29. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy,

17. And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

                I certainly will remember no longer".

                                18. Where there is forgiveness of these,

                there is no longer offering

for sin".

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