[DailyReading] Looking unto Jesus

[Daily Bible Readings - English (en)]

Lesson: Dedicated Disciples of the Lord
Reading: Looking unto Jesus  2013-01-06
Reference: Heb. 12:1-6 

Heb 12:1: Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us , and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Heb 12:2: 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.
Heb 12:3: For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Heb 12:4: Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Heb 12:5: And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Heb 12:6: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
(KJV)