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Heb. 12:1 - NIV, NAB - in 1 Clement

Wherefore, having so many great and glorious examples set before us, let us turn again to the practice of that peace which from the beginning was the mark set before us;[85]

Heb. 12:1 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV

Wherefore also, having encompassing us such a cloud," holy and transparent, "of witnesses, laying aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, let us run with patience the race set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith."[149]

Heb. 12:1 - NIV, NAB - in 1 Clement

Wherefore, having so many great and glorious examples set before us, let us turn again to the practice of that peace which from the beginning was the mark set before us;[97]

Heb. 12:2 - NIV, NAB - in Five Books in Reply to Marcion

For praise pursuing,[85]

Heb. 12:5 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I

It has therefore been well said, "My son, despise not thou the correction of God; nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him. For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."[72]

Heb. 12:5 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Of Patience

us to give thanks and rejoice, over and above, at being thought worthy of divine chastisement. "Whom I love," saith He, "I chasten."[112]

Heb. 12:6 - NIV, NAB - in 1 Clement

"For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."[249]

Heb. 12:6 - NIV, NAB - in Origen de Principiis Book III

God accordingly abandons and neglects those whom He has judged undeserving of chastisement: "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."[118]

Heb. 12:6 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Epistle VII

For know, beloved brethren, that I was not long ago reproached with this also in a vision, that we were sleepy in our prayers, and did not pray with watchfulness; and undoubtedly God, who "rebukes whom He loves,[14]

Heb. 12:6 - NIV, NAB - in 1 Clement

"For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."[304]

Heb. 12:8 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II

If, therefore, any one be slandered and falsely accused, such a one is blessed; for the Scripture says, "A man that is a reprobate is not tried by God."[46]

Heb. 12:15 - NIV, NAB - in Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Sixth

These have been perverted from the truth: among them there is the hope of repentance, by which it is possible to live. Corruption, then, has a hope of a kind of renewal,[7]

Heb. 12:15 - NIV, NAB - in Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection

For the present we restrain its sprouts, such as evil imaginations, "test any root of bitterness springing up trouble"[11]

Heb. 12:16 - NIV, NAB - in Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Fourth

And therefore I say to you, that if any one is tempted by the devil, and sins after that great and holy calling. in which the Lord has called His people to everlasting life,[13]

Heb. 12:21 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen

O surpassing love for man! Not as a teacher speaking to his pupils, not as a master to his domestics, nor as God to men, but as a father, does the Lord gently admonish his children. Thus Moses confesses that "he was filled with quaking and terror"[103]

Heb. 12:22 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book VII

"Ye are come," says he, "unto Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels."[59]

Heb. 12:22 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book VIII

But indeed they do in a sense separate themselves and stand aloof from those who are aliens from the commonwealth of God and strangers to His covenants, in order that they may live as citizens of heaven, "coming to the living God, and to the city of God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and Church of the first-born, which are written in heaven."[14]

Heb. 12:22 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

but made clear by the Spirit of the living God, and might be killed in the Jerusalem below, and having risen from the dead might reign in Mount Zion, and the city of the living God-the heavenly Jerusalem.[139]

Heb. 12:23 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II

and "an holy nation."[140]

Heb. 12:24 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins

What, then, is the Paraclete's administrative office but this: the direction of discipline, the revelation of the Scriptures, the reformation of the intellect, the advancement toward the "better things? "[5]

Heb. 12:26 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Monogamy

will fall far more heavily and bitterly in the "universal shaking"[111]

Heb. 12:29 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book VI

Nor is the Spirit, in our opinion, a "body," any more than fire is a "body," which God is said to be in the passage, "Our God is a consuming fire."[362]

Heb. 12:29 - NIV, NAB - in Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VI

Now he is of the appearance of fire. Moses also, he says, expresses himself thus: "The Lord thy God is a burning and consuming fire."[81]

Heb. 12:29 - NIV, NAB - in A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity

But these things are rather used as figures than as being so in fact. For as, in the Old Testament,[38]

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