▪︎ Jews
2Cor_3:12-16
12Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech, 13and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away. 14But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. 15But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; 16but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
;2Cor_3:17-18
17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
;▪︎ Non-Jews, Gentiles
Eph_2:1-5
1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. 3Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 4But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
;Eph_2:6-10
6and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
; ► Heb 3:1
▪︎ consider (κατανοέω – Greek) – katanoeó ► to carefully consider, from katá, “down along, exactly according to” and noiéō, “to think”) – properly, to think from up to down, to a conclusion; to consider exactly, attentively (decisively); to concentrate by fixing one’s thinking ” ‘to perceive clearly‘ (kata, intensive), ‘to understand fully, consider closely‘, thinking decisively to a definite (clear) understanding – Luke 12:24, 27; Acts 7:30-31; Rom 4:19-20; James 1:23-24, 25; [John 5:39]
► Heb 12:3
▪︎ consider (ἀναλογίζομαι – Greek) – analogizomai ► to consider fully, (middle voice from analogia… ana, “up, completing a process” intensifying logízomai, “reckon, reason”), properly, reason up to a conclusion by moving through the needed thought-process (analysis); to “add things up,” reckoning from “premise to conclusion” – especially by repeated (nuanced) reflection that advance up the “levels of truth”, to sum up, to estimate, to think over, to ponder – used once in NT, here in Heb 12:3.
► 2Cor 3:5
▪︎ consider (λογίζομαι – Greek) – logizomai ► to consider, reckon, middle voice from logos; to take an inventory, i.e. Estimate (literally or figuratively) — conclude, esteem, impute, lay, number, reason, reckon, suppose, think (on) – James 2:22-23; 2Cor 5:19, 10:7; Rom 6:11; Heb 11:18-19;
► Heb 13:7
▪︎ remember (μνημονεύω – Greek) – mnémoneuó ► to make mention; be mindful, remember, from a derivative of mneme; to exercise memory, recollect; by implication, to rehearse – Matt 16:9-10; John 16:4; Acts 20:31-32; Eph 2:11, 12; 2Tim 2:8-9;
Old Testament references to consider:
1Sam 12:24; 1Chron 28:10; Ps 8:3, 48:13, 107:43, 119:95;