“Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, having put off every weight, and the closely besetting sin, may we run the contest that is set before us through endurance,”— Hebrews 12:1 (LSV)
1Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, having put off every weight, and the closely besetting sin, may we run the contest that is set before us through endurance,
2looking to the Author and Perfecter of the faith—Jesus, who, for the joy set before Him, endured a cross, having despised shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God;
3for again consider Him who endured such contradiction from the sinners to Himself, that you may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.
4You did not yet resist to blood—striving with sin;