Chapter summary
Hebrews 12 Summary
Hebrews 12 urges believers to run the race with endurance, fixing their eyes on Jesus, and to receive God’s loving discipline.
Surrounded by a ‘cloud of witnesses,’ we throw off sin and run with perseverance, ‘fixing our eyes on Jesus,’ who endured the cross for the joy set before him.
The chapter frames hardship as a Father’s loving discipline that yields righteousness, and calls us to worship God ‘with reverence and awe.’
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Hebrews 12:1 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.” Hebrews 12:2 “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
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