Hebrews 6:15

American Standard Version (1901)

And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 6:12 : 12 that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
  • Gen 12:2-3 : 2 and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make they name great; and be thou a blessing: 3 and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
  • Gen 15:2-6 : 2 And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
  • Gen 17:16-17 : 16 And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother of] nations; kings of peoples shall be of her. 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
  • Gen 21:2-7 : 2 And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh; every one that heareth will laugh with me. 7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.
  • Exod 1:7 : 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
  • Hab 2:2-3 : 2 And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.
  • Rom 4:17-25 : 17 (as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were. 18 Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb; 20 yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22 Wherefore also it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned unto him; 24 but for our sake also, unto whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 10:36-37
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    36For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

    37For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.

  • Heb 6:11-14
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    11And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:

    12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

    13For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,

    14saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

  • Heb 6:16-18
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    74%

    16For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

    17Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

    18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:

  • Heb 11:39
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    39And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,

  • Rom 4:18-21
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    18Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall thy seed be.

    19And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb;

    20yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God,

    21and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

  • Heb 11:17-19
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    17By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten [son] ;

    18[ even he] to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

    19accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.

  • Gen 15:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

    6And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

  • Heb 11:8-11
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    71%

    8By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

    9By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

    10for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

    11By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised:

  • 1 Chr 16:16-17
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    16[ The covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,

    17And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Jas 5:11
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    11Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

  • Heb 11:2
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    2For therein the elders had witness borne to them.

  • Ps 105:9
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    9[ The covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,

  • Jas 1:3-4
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    3Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

    4And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

  • Rom 5:4
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    4and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:

  • Rom 9:9
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    9For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

  • Heb 11:13
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    13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

  • Jas 1:12
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    12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to them that love him.

  • Gal 3:15
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    15Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.

  • Heb 5:8
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    8though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;

  • Gen 22:16
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    16and said, By myself have I sworn, saith Jehovah, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,

  • Heb 10:23
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    23let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:

  • Heb 7:6
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    6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises.

  • Luke 1:73
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    73The oath which he spake unto Abraham our father,

  • Gen 21:2
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    2And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • Rom 8:25
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    25But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.

  • Gal 3:6
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    6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

  • Gen 26:5
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    5because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

  • Rom 15:4
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    4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

  • Gen 17:19
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    19And God said, Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him. [

  • Ps 105:42
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    42For he remembered his holy word, [And] Abraham his servant.

  • Gen 22:18
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    18and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.