Heb 12:1-2, 22-24, 1Pe 1:23-24 | ESV | STEP | 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 ,

Hebrews 12:1-2

Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and ^asin which clings so closely, and ^blet us run ^cwith endurance the race that is ^dset before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, ^ewho for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising ^fthe shame, and ^gis seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12:22-24

22 But you have come to ^hMount Zion and to the city of the living God, ⁱthe heavenly Jerusalem, and to ^jinnumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to ^kthe assembly ^{▼▼Or church} of the firstborn who are ^menrolled in heaven, and to ⁿGod, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, ^othe mediator of a new covenant, and to ^pthe sprinkled blood ^qthat speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

1 Peter 1:23-24

23 ^rsince you have been born again, ^snot of perishable seed but of imperishable, through ^tthe living and abiding word of God; 24 for

^u“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,