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Hebrews 12:2

希伯来书 12:2

The Passage

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

In the other language

仰望为我们信心创始成终的耶稣。他因那摆在前面的喜乐，就轻看羞辱，忍受了十字架的苦难，便坐在神宝座的右边。

Theme

Looking to Jesus

Bring a question to this passage

Many readers arrive here from a real question. These are reflections for how this passage speaks to the questions people bring most often — not an answer about what will happen, but an invitation to sit with it slowly.

How do I face this season of pressure at work?

Looking to Jesus gives your attention somewhere to rest beyond the next deadline or someone else's approval. This passage does not give instructions for managing work, but it shows endurance shaped by joy rather than shame. Jesus endured the cross; he is named as the author and perfecter of faith, not merely an example of trying harder. You do not have to turn every difficult task into a test of your worth. Nor does endurance mean accepting every demand without question. As you read, you might notice what has become the center of your attention. How much of your attention is held by deadlines or others’ approval, and what might change as you turn your gaze toward Jesus?

Carry thisYour worth is not measured by the next deadline.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

I want to learn to love better in this relationship.

Jesus’ endurance offers a place to begin as you seek to love better without measuring yourself only by performance. This passage does not give specific relationship advice; it directs attention to Jesus, whose faithfulness includes suffering without making shame the final measure of his life. You can bring your impatience, defensiveness, and longing to be understood into that attention. His endurance is not permission for someone to harm you, nor a demand that you erase your needs. It invites you to consider faithfulness without confusing love with approval at any cost. Where might looking to Jesus help you respond with care rather than simply defend yourself?

Carry thisLove can be faithful without making shame its measure.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

What do I need to let go of in the coming weeks?

Perhaps letting go feels less like relief than losing something you have relied on. This passage does not name what you should release in the coming weeks. It turns your attention toward Jesus instead. You see both his suffering and the joy before him. Neither the cross nor its shame had the final word. You need not pretend that loosening your grip will be easy. As you look toward him, notice what you are carrying and how it affects your trust. Let that noticing become prayer rather than an urgent demand to change everything. Which burden draws your attention as you look toward Jesus, knowing this passage does not name what you should release, but invites you to consider his endurance and the joy before him?

Carry thisYour own performance is not the source of faith.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

How can I find stillness in a busy life?

Stillness in a busy life is not directly addressed here, but the passage offers your attention a place to rest. You are invited to look to Jesus, rather than keep measuring how well you are managing everything. His endurance does not make suffering small; it shows a faithfulness that holds sorrow and joy together. For a quiet moment, you might let the unfinished tasks remain unfinished while you remember whom you are looking toward. You do not have to produce perfect calm before you can turn your attention to him. Looking to Jesus, what might you allow to wait while you rest with him for a moment?

Carry thisYour workload is not the only place to look.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

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Hebrews 12 — in context

1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

6For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

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