Hebrews 10:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Κατέχωμεν τὴν ὁμολογίαν τῆς ἐλπίδος ἀκλινῆ· (πιστὸς γὰρ ὁ ἐπαγγειλάμενος·)

Transliteration

Let us katechōmen the homologian of the elpidos aklinē; (pistos for the one epangeilamenos;)

Grammar Details

*katechōmen*: present, active, subjunctive, 1st person, plural - let us hold fast
*homologian*: accusative, feminine, singular - confession
*elpidos*: genitive, feminine, singular - of hope
*aklinē*: accusative, feminine, singular - unwavering
*pistos*: nominative, masculine, singular - faithful
*epangeilamenos*: aorist, middle, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having promised

Word Meanings

*katechōmen*: let us hold fast/let us hold firmly
*homologian*: confession/profession/acknowledgment
*elpidos*: hope/expectation
*aklinē*: unwavering/without wavering/unmoved
*pistos*: faithful/trustworthy
*epangeilamenos*: having promised/one who promised

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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 1:9 : 9 God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Heb 3:6 : 6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.
1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
1 Thess 5:24 : 24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it.
Heb 11:11 : 11 By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past {G2540} age, since she counted him faithful who had promised:
Jas 1:6 : 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
Titus 1:2 : 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;
Heb 4:14 : 14 Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
Heb 6:18 : 18 that 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 3:14 : 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and guard you from the evil [one].
Rev 3:11 : 11 {G2400} I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.

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