Hebrews 12:1 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,

²² You will be hated by everybody on my account, but the man who holds out to the very end will be saved.

³⁷ No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me, ³⁸ and no one who will not take up his cross and follow me is worthy of me.

¹³ But he who holds out to the end will be saved.

¹⁴ And what falls among the thorns means those who listen and pass on, and the worries and wealth and pleasures of life stifle them and they yield nothing. ¹⁵ But the seed in the good soil means those who listen to the message and keep it in good, true hearts, and yield unfailingly.

⁵⁹ He said to another, "Follow me." But he said, "Let me first go and bury my father." ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you must go and spread the news of the Kingdom of God!" ⁶¹ Yet another man said to him, "Master, I am going to follow you, but let me first say goodbye to my people at home." ⁶² Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plough, and then looks back, is fitted for the Kingdom of God."

¹⁵ And he said to them, "Take care! You must be on your guard against any form of greed, for a man's life does not belong to him, no matter how rich he is."

²⁶ "If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine. ²⁷ For no one who does not take up his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine. ²⁸ What man among you if he wishes to build a tower does not first sit down and estimate the cost of it, to see whether he has enough to complete it? ²⁹ Or else when he has laid his foundation and cannot finish the building, everyone who sees it will begin to ridicule him, ³⁰ and say, 'This man started to erect a building, and could not finish it!' ³¹ Or what king, if he is going to meet another king in battle, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the other who is coming against him with twenty thousand? ³² And if he cannot, while the other is still far away, he sends envoys to him and asks on what terms he will make peace. ³³ In just that way, no one of you who does not say goodbye to all he has can be a disciple of mine.

²⁸ for I have five brothers; let him warn them so that they will not also come to this place of torture.'

²² When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is one thing that you still lack. Sell all that you have, and divide the money among the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine." ²³ But when he heard that, he was much cast down, for he was very rich. ²⁴ And when Jesus saw it, he said, "How hard it will be for those who have money to get into the Kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"

³⁴ But take care that your hearts are not loaded down with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day takes you by surprise, like a trap.

³² It is to what he has seen and heard that he gives testimony, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

³⁹ Many of the Samaritans in that town came to believe in him because of the testimony the woman gave when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did!"

⁴⁴ for he himself declared that a prophet is not honored in his own country.

⁷ Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life,

³ More than that, we ought to glory in our troubles, for we know that trouble produces endurance, ⁴ and endurance, character, and character, hope, ⁵ and hope will not disappoint us. For, through the holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.

²⁴ It was in this hope that we were saved. But a hope that can be seen is not a hope, for who hopes for what he sees? ²⁵ But when we hope for something that we do not see, we wait persistently for it.

¹² Be happy in your hope, steadfast in time of trouble, persistent in prayer.

¹¹ All this especially, because you know this critical time and that it is time for you to wake from your sleep, for our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. ¹² The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light. ¹³ Let us live honorably, as in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, or in immorality and indecency, or in quarreling and jealousy. ¹⁴ But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about gratifying your physical cravings.

²⁴ Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win. ²⁵ Any man who enters an athletic contest goes into strict training, to win a wreath that will soon wither, but the one we compete for will never wither. ²⁶ So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air. ²⁷ But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.

¹ So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete.

⁷ You were making such progress! Who has stopped your obeying the truth?

²² You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions. ²³ You must adopt a new attitude of mind, ²⁴ and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

¹⁶ offering men the message of life. Then I will have reason to boast of you on the Day of Christ, because my exertion and labor have not been wasted.

¹⁰ I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death, ¹¹ in the hope of attaining resurrection from the dead. ¹² Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ. ¹³ Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead, ¹⁴ I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

⁵ So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry. ⁶ It is on account of these things that God's anger is coming. ⁷ And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life. ⁸ But now you too must put them all aside—anger, rage, spite, rough, abusive talk—these must be banished from your lips.

⁹ But men who want to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, harmful cravings, that plunge people into destruction and ruin. ¹⁰ For love of money is the root of all the evils, and in their eagerness to get rich, some men wander away from the faith and pierce themselves to the heart with many a pang.

⁴ Anyone who is in the army keeps from being involved in business affairs, so as to please the officer who enlisted him.

⁷ I have had a part in the great contest, I have run my race, I have preserved my faith.

¹⁵ And so after waiting patiently, he received what God had promised him.

³⁵ You must not lose your courage, for it will be richly rewarded, ³⁶ but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised. ³⁷ For "In a very little while He who is to come will come and not delay, ³⁸ And he whom I accept as righteous will find life through his faith. But if a man draws back, my heart can take no pleasure in him." ³⁹ But we will not draw back and perish, but we will have faith and save our souls.

² For it was by it that the men of old gained God's approval. ³ It is faith that enables us to see that the universe was created at the command of God, so that the world we see did not simply arise out of matter. ⁴ Faith made Abel's sacrifice greater in the sight of God than Cain's; through faith he gained God's approval as an upright man, for God himself approved his offering, and through faith even when he was dead he still spoke. ⁵ Faith caused Enoch to be taken up from the earth without experiencing death; he could not be found, because God had taken him up. For before he was taken up there is evidence that he pleased God, ⁶ but without faith it is impossible to please him; for whoever would approach God must have faith in his existence and in his willingness to reward those who try to find him. ⁷ Faith led Noah, when he was warned by God of things no one then saw, in obedience to the warning to build an ark in which to save his family, and by such faith he condemned the world, and came to possess that uprightness which faith produces. ⁸ Faith enabled Abraham to obey when God summoned him to leave his home for a region which he was to have for his own, and to leave home without knowing where he was going. ⁹ Faith led him to make a temporary home as a stranger in the land he had been promised, and to live there in his tents, with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to that city with the sure foundations, designed and built by God. ¹¹ Faith made even Sarah herself able to have a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought, that he who had made the promise would keep it. ¹² And so from one man, for any prospect of descendants as good as dead, there sprang a people in number like the stars in the heavens or the countless sands on the seashore. ¹³ All these people lived all their lives in faith, and died without receiving what had been promised; they only saw it far ahead and welcomed the sight of it, recognizing that they themselves were only foreigners and strangers here on earth. ¹⁴ For men who recognize that show that they are in search of a country of their own. ¹⁵ And if it had been the country from which they had come to which their thoughts turned back, they would have found an opportunity to return to it. ¹⁶ But, as it is, their aspirations are for a better, a heavenly country! That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city to receive them. ¹⁷ Faith enabled Abraham, when he was put to the test, to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had accepted God's promises was ready to sacrifice his only son, ¹⁸ of whom he had been told, "Your posterity is to arise through Isaac!" ¹⁹ For he believed that God was able to raise men even from the dead, and from the dead he did indeed, to speak figuratively, receive him back. ²⁰ Faith enabled Isaac to bequeath to Jacob and Esau blessings that were still to be. ²¹ Faith made Jacob when he was dying give a blessing to each of Joseph's sons, and bow in worship even while leaning on his staff. ²² Faith inspired Joseph when he was dying to tell of the future migration of the Israelites, and to give instructions about his own body. ²³ Faith led Moses' parents to hide him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child and they would not respect the edict of the king. ²⁴ Faith made Moses, when he was grown up, refuse to be known as a son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ for he preferred sharing the hardships of God's people to a short-lived enjoyment of sin, ²⁶ and thought such contempt as the Christ endured was truer wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking forward to the coming reward. ²⁷ Faith made him leave Egypt, unafraid of the king's anger, for he persevered as though he saw him who is unseen. ²⁸ Faith made him institute the Passover and splash the blood upon the door-posts, to keep the angel that destroyed the firstborn from touching them. ²⁹ Faith enabled them to cross the Red Sea as though it were dry land, although the Egyptians when they tried to follow them across it were drowned. ³⁰ Faith made the walls of Jericho fall, after they had marched around them each day for seven days. ³¹ Faith saved Rahab the prostitute from being destroyed with those who disobeyed God, because she had given a friendly welcome to the scouts. ³² And why should I go on? For my time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, ³³ who by their faith conquered kingdoms, attained uprightness, received new promises, shut the mouths of lions, ³⁴ put out furious fires, escaped death by the sword, found strength in their time of weakness, proved mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. ³⁵ Women had their dead restored to them by resurrection. Others endured torture, and refused to accept release, that they might rise again to the better life. ³⁶ Still others had to endure taunts and blows, and even fetters and prison. ³⁷ They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawed in two, they were killed with the sword. Clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, they were driven from place to place, destitute, persecuted, misused— ³⁸ men of whom the world was not worthy wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and holes in the ground.

³ for you know that the testing of your faith leads to steadfastness,

⁷ So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains. ⁸ You must have patience too; you must keep up your courage, for the coming of the Lord is close at hand. ⁹ Do not complain of one another, brothers, or you will be judged. The judge is standing right at the door! ¹⁰ As an example, brothers, of ill-treatment patiently endured, take the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Why, we call those who showed such endurance happy! You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen what the Lord brought out of it, for the Lord is very kind and merciful.

¹ Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,

² and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

¹² By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I think him, I have written you this short letter to encourage you and bear my testimony that this is what the true mercy of God means. Stand fast in it.

⁶ knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety,

¹⁵ Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart, ¹⁶ for all that there is in the world, the things that our physical nature and our eyes crave, and the proud display of life—these do not come from the Father, but from the world;

⁹ I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus.

¹⁰ Because you have kept in mind the message of what I endured, I also will keep you safe in the time of testing that is going to come upon the whole world, to test the inhabitants of the earth.

¹⁰ Whoever is destined for captivity will go into captivity; whoever kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. On this fact rests the endurance and fidelity of God's people.

¹⁶ "I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am of the line and family of David, I am the bright morning star."