Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2Ti 4:71Co 9:24-27Php 2:16Luk 21:34Heb 10:35-39Php 3:10-14Gal 5:71Pe 2:1 looking 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. Mic 7:71Pe 3:181Pe 2:23-24Heb 1:3Php 1:6Eph 5:2Heb 9:28Php 2:8-11
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls. Gal 6:92Co 4:16Rev 2:31Co 15:58Heb 12:2Heb 3:1Jhn 15:18-242Co 4:1 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin. 1Co 10:13Heb 10:32-34Rev 2:132Ti 4:6-7Heb 12:2Mat 24:9Rev 12:11Rev 18:24 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, Pro 3:11-12Job 5:17-18Rev 3:191Co 11:32Psa 94:12Jas 1:122Co 4:8-9Psa 118:18
“My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when you are reproved by him;
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, Rev 3:19Pro 3:12Psa 119:75Pro 13:24Psa 94:122Sa 7:14Jer 10:24Deu 8:5
and chastises every son whom he receives.” 1
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? Deu 8:5Pro 19:18Pro 13:24Pro 29:15Pro 29:17Pro 23:13-142Sa 7:14Job 34:31-32 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children. Heb 12:61Pe 5:9-10Psa 73:1Psa 73:14-15 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? Num 16:22Num 27:16Isa 42:5Jhn 3:6Job 12:10Zec 12:1Exo 20:12Isa 38:16 For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 2Pe 1:4Lev 11:44-45Tit 2:14Eph 5:26-27Ezk 36:25-27Lev 19:2Col 1:22Eph 4:24 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Rom 5:3-52Co 4:17Heb 12:5-61Pe 1:6Heb 12:10Psa 118:18Isa 32:17Jas 3:17-18 Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, 2 Isa 35:3Heb 12:31Th 5:14Job 4:3-4Ezk 21:7Ezk 7:17Heb 12:5Dan 5:6 and make straight paths for your feet, 3 so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. Pro 4:26-27Gal 6:1Isa 35:3Isa 35:6Isa 40:3-4Jas 5:16Jud 1:22-23Jer 31:8-9
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord, 2Co 7:11Pe 1:15-161Th 4:7Mat 5:8-91Pe 3:11Rom 12:18Pro 16:7Rom 14:19 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it, Heb 3:12Deu 29:18Gal 5:42Co 6:12Jn 1:81Co 15:332Pe 3:141Co 5:6 lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. Gen 25:31-341Co 6:15-20Heb 13:4Rev 22:15Mrk 7:211Th 4:3-7Act 15:291Co 10:8 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears. Pro 1:24-31Mat 25:11-12Mat 7:23Heb 10:26-29Heb 6:8Gen 27:30-41Heb 6:4-6Jer 6:30
For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, Deu 4:11Exo 24:17Deu 5:22-26Exo 20:182Co 3:9Exo 19:12-22Rom 6:142Ti 1:7 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, Deu 18:161Co 15:52Deu 4:12Exo 20:1-19Deu 4:33Deu 5:3-22Exo 20:221Th 4:16 for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”. 4 5 Exo 19:12-13Deu 33:2Exo 19:16Gal 2:19Gal 3:10Rom 3:19-20 So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.” 6 Exo 19:16Deu 9:19Isa 6:3-5Exo 19:19Psa 119:120Rev 1:17Dan 10:17Dan 10:8
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, Gal 4:26Php 3:20Psa 48:2Rev 14:1Isa 51:11Heb 11:10Heb 13:14Jol 2:32 to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, Jas 1:18Heb 11:40Luk 10:20Exo 4:22Gen 18:25Rev 14:4Rev 20:15Psa 94:2 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, 7 and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel. Heb 9:15Heb 11:28Heb 8:6Heb 11:4Gen 4:10Mat 26:281Ti 2:5Mat 23:35
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven, Heb 8:5Deu 30:17Heb 2:1-3Heb 11:7Pro 13:18Zec 7:11Exo 20:221Ki 12:16 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.” 8 Hag 2:6-7Isa 13:13Exo 19:18Isa 2:19Jol 3:16Hab 3:10Heb 12:27Psa 114:6-7 This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 1Co 7:31Mat 24:35Rev 21:12Pe 3:10-11Rev 11:15Ezk 21:27Psa 102:26-27 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, Rom 12:1-2Psa 2:11Heb 13:15Dan 2:44Heb 4:16Heb 10:22-23Rev 1:61Pe 2:5 for our God is a consuming fire. 9 Deu 4:24Deu 9:32Th 1:8Heb 10:27Isa 66:15Exo 24:17Dan 7:9Psa 97:3