...and a good conscience, look up to Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith; who, for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross and despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Father in the heavenly place ; into which, if you faint not, you...

...Saviour of 1 Luke ii. 19, 51. the world, of the Author and Finisher of our faith who, for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross and despised the shame. And we Christians, in so far as we are conformed to His image in faith and purity, shall find ourselves...

...Himself, their Lord and Master, the Apostle and High Priest of their profession, for the joy which was set before Him, endured the Cross, and despised the shame, and had entered into His glory ; and if they would be faithful to Him, as they had borne His cross and...

...Him, of sitting together with Him in the heavenlies. Even as our Divine Master, " for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross and despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God," so are we, the disciples of the once crucified,...

...if thou follow Him cheerfully on the same encouragements that He looked to: " Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, and despised the shame, and is now set down at the right hand of God." " When Thou shall enlarge my heart." In all beings the heart...

...it is this longing for selfsacrifice which should be the strongest stimulus. " He, for the joy that was set before Him, endured the Cross and despised the shame." And shall we be such poor, weak, pitiful, faithless Christians as to shrink from the same ? Shall we hanker...

...a good conscience; look up to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your faith ; who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, and despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Fattier in the heavenly place ; into which, if you faint not,...