G4295–πρόκειμαι–prokeimai

For, assuming the earnest willingness, the gift is acceptable according to whatever a man has, and not according to what he has not.

πρόκειται, prokeitai “is present,”

He added an oath, in order that, through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for Him to prove false, we may possess mighty encouragement--we who, for safety, have hastened to lay hold of the hope set before us.

προκειμένης prokeimenēs “is being set before [us]”

Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

προκείμενον prokeimenon “lying before”

simply fixing our gaze upon Jesus, our Prince Leader in the faith, who will also award us the prize. He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself-- w

προκειμένης prokeimenēs “is lying before”

So also Sodom and Gomorrah--and the neighboring towns in the same manner--having been guilty of gross fornication and having gone astray in pursuit of unnatural vice, are now before us as a specimen of the fire of the Ages in the punishment which they a

πρόκεινται prokeintai “are set forth as”