³⁹And these all, having obtained witness through faith, did not receive the promise, ⁴⁰God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

Chapter 12

¹Let 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, ²looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured the cross, having despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. ³For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.

⁴Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

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Hebrews 12:1: Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us …

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