Hebrews 12:5

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:3-13

Hebrews 12:3-1 Chronicles : . With the example of Christ before them the readers are to show more constancy under their own sufferings. They are to think of Him whose life was so thwarted by wicked men, and thus nerve themselves to strength and patience ( Hebrews 12:3). What is their struggle compared to that of Jesus? They have not yet been called on to venture their lives in the battle for righteousness, and under such sufferings as have been laid on them they have given way, forgetting... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 12:5

And ye have forgotten; eklelhsye, whether rendered interrogatively: have ye forgotten? Or positively: ye have forgotten; either way it carrieth a check upon their forgetfulness of what was of the greatest importance for them to remember in the time of persecutions, and implieth a direction of them to their duty, that they ought to remember the counsel or command given by God to them, how to interpret these persecutions for Christ and the gospel, and how to improve them; and so introduceth a... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 12:3-8

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESHebrews 12:3. Consider.—Place your sufferings in comparison with His. Against Himself.—R.V. renders “against themselves,” which is a well-supported reading. Wearied.—R.V. renders “that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.” Stuart renders, “lest, becoming discouraged in your minds, ye grow weary.”Hebrews 12:4. Unto blood.—The last extremity; the surrender of life. Implying that Christ had so resisted. From this we infer that there had been no actual martyrs... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:3-13

Hebrews 12:3-13 I. Chastisement is sent by fatherly love. There, where we are most sensitive, God touches us. The thorn in the flesh is something which we fancy we cannot bear if it were to be lifelong. We have emerged, as it were, out of a dark tunnel, and fancy that the rest of our journey will be amid sunlit fields. We have achieved steep and rugged ascents, and imagine the period of great and exhausting exertion is over. The trial deepest and sorest seems to leave us for a while, yet it... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 12:4-13

DISCOURSE: 2336AFFLICTIONS THE FRUIT OF GOD’S LOVEHebrews 12:4-13. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 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: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth, not? But... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Hebrews 12:5

Lord Jehovah. Proverbs 3:11; Proverbs 3:12. read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Hebrews 12:5

Chastisement A Sermon (No. 48) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 28, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "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."-- Hebrews 12:5 GOD'S PEOPLE CAN never by any possibility be punished for their sins. God has punished them already in the person of Christ, Christ, their substitute, has endured... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:1-29

Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12.Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses ( Hebrews 12:1 ),What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, which are spoken of in chapter 11, are sitting there in heaven watching the activities on the earth. It doesn't mean that they are just watching us to see how we are going to react and respond and we've got this big gallery up here of Old Testament saints. It does mean that their life of faith and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 12:1-29

Hebrews 12:1 . Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and we are here called upon to follow these veterans of the faith. Their number is such that they are said to be a cloud, like the assembled multitudes seen on special occasions to witness some extraordinary spectacle. Nor is it the celestial host only that are interested in this contest; we are... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 12:5-6

Hebrews 12:5-6Despise not thou the chastening of the LordHow to bear afflictionsThe proposition that ariseth from the words is this: It is the duty and best wisdom of afflicted Christians to preserve themselves from the vicious extremes of despising the Schastenings of the Lord, or fainting under them.I. To “DESPISE THE CHASTENINGS OF THE LORD,” imports the “making no account of them,” as unworthy of serious regard, and includes inconsiderateness of mind, and an insensibleness of heart. 1.... read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:3-13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 12:5

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 12:3-8

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:3-13

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 12:4-13

Scofield's Reference Notes - Hebrews 12:5

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Hebrews 12:5

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:1-29

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 12:1-29

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 12:5-6

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