1 Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

2 looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured {the} cross, having despised {the} shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.