 | James M. Gustafson - Religion - 1979 - 292 pages
...when he suffered, he did not threaten; but he trusted to him who judges justly. I PETER 2:21-23 And let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured... | |
 | Robert McAfee Brown - Religion - 1985 - 332 pages
...with folded hands? Not for a moment. "Therefore [ie, because of our eschatological situation], ... let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us" (Heb. 12: i). "The race that is set before us" is right here and now. We have a job to do, and we are... | |
 | Religion - 1987 - 268 pages
...great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him... | |
 | Antonio Fuentes - Religion - 1987 - 278 pages
...great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us" (Heb 12:1). Ruth: her place in the line of David This short book deals with a family during the time... | |
 | Philip Edgcumbe Hughes - Religion - 1987 - 644 pages
...your confidence. . . . you have need of endurance" (10:35, 36); "let us lay aside every weight ... let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us" (12:1); "lift up your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees" (12:12); "see that you do not... | |
 | Religion - 1988 - 180 pages
...faith and showed us the way of salvation. The author of Hebrews in that sense could exhort the readers: "Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus . . . , who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross" (Heb. 12:1-2).... | |
 | Robert McAfee Brown - Religion - 1988 - 168 pages
...No, the words after "Therefore" are, "since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses ... let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us" (Heb. 12:1, italics added). back there. The writer informs us that we are now in the story ourselves.... | |
 | Charles H. Talbert - Religion - 1991 - 100 pages
...pre-Christian heroes of faith recited but also the example of Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith (12:3). Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured... | |
 | Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, John P. Galvin - Religion - 412 pages
...great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith [Heb 12:1]. 3. The 1983 Code of Canon Law dropped... | |
 | Barbara Sorensen, David Allen Sorensen - Religion - 1992 - 132 pages
...great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus. . . . HEBREWS 12:1, 2 (NRSV) drives us to an unhealthy pace of life? What distractions... | |
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Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us... 
