Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Treasury of Scripture seeing. Hebrews 11:2-38 For by it the elders obtained a good report... a cloud. Isaiah 60:8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? Ezekiel 38:9,16 You shall ascend and come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your bands, and many people with you... witnesses. Luke 16:28 For I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment. John 3:32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony. John 4:39,44 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did... 1 Peter 5:12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting... Revelation 22:16 I Jesus have sent my angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David... let us lay. Matthew 10:37,38 He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me... Luke 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth... Luke 9:59-62 And he said to another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father... Luke 12:15 And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness... Luke 14:26-33 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters... Luke 18:22-25 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said to him, Yet lack you one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor... Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life... Romans 13:11-14 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed... 2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit... Ephesians 4:22-24 That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts... Colossians 3:5-8 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence... 1 Timothy 6:9,10 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts... 2 Timothy 2:4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier. 1 Peter 2:1 Why laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings, 1 Peter 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 1 John 2:15,16 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him... and the sin. Hebrews 10:35-39 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward... Psalm 18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. and let us. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain... Galatians 5:7 You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth? Philippians 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain. Philippians 3:10-14 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death... 2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: with patience. Hebrews 6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise. Matthew 10:22 And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved. Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved. Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it... Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: Romans 5:3-5 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience... Romans 8:24,25 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for... Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; James 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience. James 5:7-11 Be patient therefore, brothers, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth... 2 Peter 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; Revelation 1:9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ... Revelation 3:10 Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come on all the world... Revelation 13:10 He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword...
Context Run with Perseverance
1Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
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,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:
Darby Bible Translation
Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,
King James Bible
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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,
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,
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