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.
Keep your eyes on Jesus, who begins faith and brings it to completion.
KJV1Wherefore 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, 2Looking 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. 3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5And 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:
A letter to believers tempted to give up, showing Jesus as greater than everything before Him.
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Paul’s faith in one sentence: Christ lives in me, the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Jesus to Thomas, who needed to see: blessed are those who believe without seeing.
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Made right with God through faith, we have peace with Him through Jesus Christ.
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Faith grows by hearing God’s word.