Hebrews 12:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ 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,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ 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,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ 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,

Common English Bible

¹ So then, with endurance, let’s also run the race that is laid out in front of us, since we have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us. Let’s throw off any extra baggage, get rid of the sin that trips us up,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ 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:

Hebrews 12:1 Cross References

Job 8:10

Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?

Psalm 18:23

I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

Isaiah 60:8

Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

Ezekiel 38:16

and thou shalt come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

Ezekiel 38:9

And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy hordes, and many peoples with thee.

Matthew 10:22

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

Matthew 24:13

But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

Mark 10:50

And he, casting away his garment, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

Luke 12:15

And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Luke 16:28

for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

Luke 21:34

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

John 3:32

What he hath seen and heard, of that he beareth witness; and no man receiveth his witness.

John 4:39

And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did.

John 4:44

For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;

Romans 2:7

to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Galatians 2:2

And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.

Galatians 5:7

Ye were running well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

Ephesians 4:25

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Philippians 1:30

having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Philippians 2:16

holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labour in vain.

2 Timothy 2:4

No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

Hebrews 6:15

And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

James 1:3

Knowing that the proof of your faith worketh patience.

1 Peter 2:1

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

1 Peter 4:2

that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

1 Peter 5:1

The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

1 Peter 5:12

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account him, I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God: stand ye fast therein.

2 Peter 1:6

and in your knowledge temperance; and in your temperance patience; and in your patience godliness;

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 13:10

If any man is for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Revelation 22:16

I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star.

Revelation 3:10

Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.