Having looked at the “cloud of witnesses” in chapter 11, how should we then live? The author encourages us to run the race with endurance and to shed the sin that encumbers. We are encouraged to look at difficult times and even persecution as discipline from God as a father disciplines a child for the child’s benefit.

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