This standing by those who are suffering for their faith is yet another honoured way to ‘consider how we may spur one another on towards love and good deeds’. How important it is to stand by one another! Quite apart from this chapter Hebrews speaks about faith many times (4:2; 6:1–3, 12; 10:22, 39; 12:2; 13:7). In combination with its use in chapter 11, it becomes clear that the term ‘faith’ can refer not only to the content of what we believe but also, and
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