TSK · Hebrews 12:1

Will they not instruct you and speak to you, and bring forth words from their understanding?

Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters?

You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself through you, O Gog.

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

He threw off his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus.

Jesus said to another,“Follow me.” But he replied,“Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

When Jesus heard this, he said to him,“One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.

You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?

by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.

And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.

For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.

Patience in Suffering So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness;

I, John, your brother and the one who shares with you in the persecution, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.

If anyone is meant for captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed by the sword, then by the sword he must be killed.This requires steadfast endurance and faith from the saints.