Hebrews 12:1

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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,
American Standard Version

Treated in 8 passages across the library.

  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. 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.…

  3. 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,…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    August cites Heb. xii. 1

    …eset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus. Heb. xii. 1, 2. Think, as you sit here, of anything that you are doing that is wrong, of any habit of…

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

    Looking unto Jesus cites Heb. 12: 1-3

    …run with patience the race that is set before us, we must always keep looking unto Jesus (Heb. 12: 1-3). One of the simplest and yet one of the mightiest secrets of abiding joy and victory is …

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