Chiasm
Hebrews 12:1–4
Hebrews 12:1–43 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1a "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,"
- B 1b "and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"
- C 2 "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,"
- D 2b "and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."
- C' 3 "For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds."
- C 2 "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,"
- B' 4a "Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving"
- B 1b "and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"
- A' 4b "against sin."