1Wherefore 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. …
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Here observe what is the great duty which the apostle urges upon the Hebrews, and which he so much desires they would comply with, and that is, to lay aside every weight, and the sin that did so easily beset them, and run with patience the race set before them . The duty consists of two parts, the one preparatory, the other perfective. I. Preparatory: Lay aside every weight, and the sin , etc. 1.…
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