Hebrews 10:32–39

  1. Remember the the former days, when after you were enlightened, you endured a great contest of suffering.
  2. Sometimes you were exposed publicly to abuse and afflictions,
and at other times you were in fellowship with those who were being treated in this way.
  1. For you sympathized with the prisoners
and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions,
because you knew that you yourselves have a better possession—and an enduring one.
 
  1. Therefore do not throw away your confidence,
      which has a great reward.
  2. Therefore you need endurance, so that, having done God’s will,
      you will receive what has been promised.
 
  1. For “in just a little while, the Coming One will come and not delay.
  1. But my righteous one will live by faith;
yet if he shrinks back, my soul will not be pleased with him.”
  1. But we are not those who shrink back and thus perish,
but those who have faith and are preserved.

Hebrews 12:1–11

  1. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
    let us put aside every weight, and sin which entangles,
    and run with endurance the race that is set before us,
  1. keeping our eyes on the founder and perfecter of faith, Jesus.
Because of the sake of the joy set before him, he endured the cross, despising its shame,
and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
  1. Consider, then, him
who endured such opposition from sinners,
in order that you might not become weary or lose heart.
  1. You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood in your struggle against sin
  1. And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons and daughters?
“My son, do not scorn the Lord’s training
or give up when he corrects you.
  1. For the Lord trains the one he loves
and chastises every son and daughter he accepts.”
  1. Endure your suffering as training; God is treating you as sons and daughters.
    For what son or daughter is there that a father does not train?
  2. But if you do not experience training, something all children have shared in,
          then you are illegitimate and are not children.
  3. Besides, we have experienced training from our earthly fathers and we respected them;
    shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?
  4. For they trained us for a little while as seemed good to them,
    but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.
  5. Now all training seems painful at the time, not joyful.
    But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those given exercise by it.