"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,"
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Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
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.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
For by it the elders obtained a good report.
By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
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.
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
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.
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.
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
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,
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,
Wherefore, seeing we also are encompassed 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,
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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,