3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
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And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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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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