Hebrews 12

Treated in 68 passages across the library.

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  1. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    The necessity of mortification: the duty of the best believers cites Heb. xii. 1

    …; Gal. v. 17, etc. — The activity of abiding sin in believers, Rom. vii. 23; James iv. 5; Heb. xii. 1 — Its fruitfulness and tendency — Every lust aims at the height in its kind — The Spirit …

  2. Divine Healing · Andrew Murray

    Discipline and Sanctification cites Heb. 12:10

    “God chasteneth us for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness” (Heb. 12:10). “If a man... purge himself.., he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified and meet for …

  3. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Or, a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan cites Heb. 12.16

    …rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears’ (Heb. 12.16,17). 142. Now was I as one bound, I felt myself shut up unto the judgment to come; nothin…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Heb 12: 10

    …pture calls them happy who are afflicted. How are they happy? Because they are more holy. Heb 12: 10. Because they are more in God’s favour. Prov 3: 12. The goldsmith loves his gold when in …

  5. The God of All Comfort · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Things That Cannot Be Shaken cites Hebrews 12:27

    …s, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain" (Hebrews 12:27). After all we have been considering regarding the unfathomable love and care of God, it …

  6. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites Heb 12: 9

    … give up their accounts to God with joy. [S] The natural father, the father of the flesh. Heb 12: 9. Honour thy natural father. This is so necessary a duty, that Philo the Jew placed the fi…

  7. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    January cites Heb 12:1

    …mine unbelief.” You and I often fail in our faith because of ignorance and besetting sin (Heb 12:1). There is the mighty ocean of power all around us, but for some reason we cannot tap it.…

  8. Purity of Heart · William Booth

    Purity Commanded cites Hebrews 12:14

    Hebrews 12:14 says, “Follow ... holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.” My dear friends, Ag…

  9. Talks to the Farmer · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Threshing cites Hebrews 12:6

    …ur chastening is not left to servants, nor to enemies: “We are disciplined by the Lord!” (Hebrews 12:6). The Great Husbandman himself directs the labourers, for they know neither the time nor …

  10. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The First Stage cites Heb. 12:21

    …Christian afraid that he should be burnt: here therefore he did sweat and quake for fear. Heb. 12:21. And now he began to be sorry that he had taken Mr. Worldly Wiseman’s counsel; and with t…

  11. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    Dealing with the Complaining cites Heb. xii. 5

    …e; and that the trouble is not with God’s ways but the limitation of their understanding. Heb. xii. 5, 7, 10, 11 are especially useful in cases where the inquirer complains because of his own…

  12. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Scriptural Christianity cites Heb 12:14

    …ing; and to abound more and more in that holiness without which no man can see the Lord. (Heb 12:14) 5. And their labour was not in vain in the Lord. his word ran and was glorified. It grew…

  13. Divine Healing · Andrew Murray

    The Holy Spirit the Spirit of Healing cites Heb. 12:10

    …d to consecrate himself entirely to God and to His service (I Cor. 10:31; James 5:15, 16; Heb. 12:10). Divine healing tends to glorify Jesus. It is God’s will that His Son should be glorifie…

  14. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon I cites Heb. xii. 14

    … on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.”—Heb. xii. 14. “Without holiness no man shall see God.”—Rom. viii. 8, 9. “So, then they that are in the…

  15. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon II cites Heb. xii. 14

    …ot enter into the kingdom of God,” John iii. 3, 5. “Without holiness none shall see God,” Heb. xii. 14.—The devil’s word is, “you may be saved without being born again and converted; you may d…

  16. The Key in My Hand · Gareth Evans

    Unneeded Baggage cites Hebrews 12:1

    …n which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1). Many are hindered in the battle, not because of the roaring lion or the arrows of lies,…

  17. Men Who Tended the Flock · Ochorus Originals

    Martyn Lloyd-Jones — The Doctor Who Healed Souls cites Hebrews 12:1–2

    …he race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith” (Hebrews 12:1–2, NIV). He ran with perseverance. He fixed his eyes on Jesus. He finished the race. And th…

  18. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    Dealing with the Willful and the Deluded cites Heb. xii. 25

    …itself and then leave the person alone to reflect upon it. Romans vi. 23; Heb. x. 28, 29; Heb. xii. 25; Mark xvi. 16; Prov. xxix. 1, and Prov. i. 24‒33, are passages which are good for this pu…

  19. Rise Up, Men of God · Ochorus Originals

    Raising Arrows cites Hebrews 12:6

    … "The Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son" (Hebrews 12:6). A father who does not discipline his children does not love them. But discipline is not…

  20. Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards · Jonathan Edwards

    God Glorified in Man’s Dependence cites Heb. xii. 10

    …moral image of God, 2 Pet. i. 4. They are holy by being made partakers of God’s holiness, Heb. xii. 10. The saints are beautiful and blessed by a communication of God’s holiness and joy, as th…

  21. Men Who Tended the Flock · Ochorus Originals

    Scripture Appendix: God’s Word on the Pastoral Calling cites Hebrews 12:1–2

    …de you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.” Hebrews 12:1–2 — “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw of…

  22. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    On Sin in Believers cites Heb. 12:22

    …are not Christians ‘come to the heavenly Jerusalem,’ where ‘nothing defiled can enter?’” (Heb. 12:22.) Yes; “and to an innumerable company of angels, and to the spirits of just men made perf…

  23. Holy in Christ · Andrew Murray

    Holiness and Chastisement cites Heb. xii. 10

    …s of His holiness. Follow after sanctification, without which no man shall see the Lord.’—Heb. xii. 10, 14. There is perhaps no part of God’s word which sheds such Divine light upon suffering …

  24. Holy in Christ · Andrew Murray

    Holiness and Heaven cites Heb. xii. 14

    … Pet. iii. 11. ‘Follow after the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord.’—Heb. xii. 14. ‘He that is holy, let him be made holy still…. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the h…

  25. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    Sanctification cites Heb. 12:14

    …. 7. The seventh part of the answer to the question of how men are sanctified is found in Heb. 12:14, "Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see …

  26. Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards · Jonathan Edwards

    The Many Mansions cites Heb. xii. 22

    …p God, so in heaven there is a glorious assembly, or Church, continually worshipping God: Heb. xii. 22, 23, “But ye are come unto mount Sion, [and unto] the city of the living God, the heavenl…

  27. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Effectual calling cites Heb. xii. 25

    …e voice of the Word is God’s call to us; therefore He is said to speak to us from heaven (Heb. xii. 25). That is, in the ministry of the Word. When the Word calls from sin, it is as if we hear…

  28. How to Succeed in the Christian Life · R. A. Torrey

    Persecution cites Heb. 12: 2

    …uch contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your mind” (Heb. 12: 2, 3). I was once talking with an old coloured man who in the slave days had found his Savi…

  29. Holy in Christ · Andrew Murray

    Holiness and Resurrection cites Heb. xii. 10

    …is a peculiar one. It is not the ordinary word for God’s Holiness that is here used as in Heb. xii. 10, describing holiness in the abstract as the attribute of an object, but another word (als…

  30. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Heb. 12:1

    … sin that easily besets them, and do run with patience the race that is set before them," Heb. 12:1. That true faith, by which persons rely on the righteousness of Christ, and the work that…

  31. A Brand Plucked from the Fire · Julia A. J. Foote

    Love not the World cites Heb. xii. 14

    …ristian, God wants to establish your heart unblamable in holiness. 1 Thess. i. 13; iv. 7; Heb. xii. 14; Rom. vi. 19. Will you let him do it, by putting away all filthiness of the flesh as well…

  32. Feasting at the table · Gareth Evans

    Godly Relationships cites Heb 12:15

    …t on your squabble. Deal with it today. It will produce a ‘root of bitterness’ otherwise (Heb 12:15). iii) Attack the problem, not the other person . Speak only that which edifies. Remember…

  33. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The worst things work for good to the godly cites Heb. xii. 7

    …f glory, signs of sonship. “If you endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons” (Heb. xii. 7). Every print of the rod is a badge of honour. (3rd.) Afflictions tend to the magnifying …

  34. The Key in My Hand · Gareth Evans

    The Devices of Satan cites Hebrews 12: 15

    …at no ‘root of bitterness’ springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled” (Hebrews 12: 15). If we do not deal with the anger in the appropriate way (which we will discuss later), …

  35. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Heb 12: 25

    …: 4. Christ is said now to speak to us ‘from heaven,’ as a king speaks in his ambassador. Heb 12: 25. Ministers are but pipes and organs, it is the Spirit of the living God that breathes in …

  36. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Ninth Stage cites Heb. 12:16

    …y art thou so tart, my brother? Esau sold his birthright, and that for a mess of pottage, Heb. 12:16; and that birthright was his greatest jewel: and if he, why might not Little-Faith do so …

  37. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.7 The Seventh Commandment cites Heb 12: 14

    …on. 1 John 2: 6. O let us labour for this soul purity! Without it there is no seeing God. Heb 12: 14. ‘What communion has light with darkness?’ 2 Cor 6: 14. To keep the soul pure, have recou…

  38. The Way Into the Holiest · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    Chastisement cites HEBREWS xii. 6

    Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." HEBREWS xii. 6. IT is hardly possible to suppose that any shall read these lines who have not drunk of t…

  39. The Way Into the Holiest · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    The Ideal Life cites HEBREWS xii. 14

    … God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled."-HEBREWS xii. 14, 15. How beautiful and solemn are these words, like the swelling cadence of heaven's own …

  40. The Way Into the Holiest · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    The Things That Cannot Be Shaken cites HEBREWS xii. 27

    …shaken, as of things that are made; that those things which cannot be shaken may remain."-HEBREWS xii. 27. WHAT majesty there is in these words! They bear the mint mark of Deity. No man could pre…

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