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Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.