Hebrews 6:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

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  • Heb 10:36 : 36 For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
  • Heb 13:7 : 7 Keep in mind those who were over you, and who gave you the word of God; seeing the outcome of their way of life, let your faith be like theirs.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense; 31 And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it. 33 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: 34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.
  • Heb 1:14 : 14 Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?
  • Heb 5:11 : 11 Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.
  • 1 John 2:25 : 25 And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.
  • Rev 13:10 : 10 If any man sends others into prison, into prison he will go: if any man puts to death with the sword, with the sword will he be put to death. Here is the quiet strength and the faith of the saints.
  • Prov 18:9 : 9 He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.
  • Rev 14:12-13 : 12 Here is the quiet strength of the saints, who keep the orders of God, and the faith of Jesus. 13 And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.
  • Heb 6:15 : 15 And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.
  • Jas 1:3 : 3 Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;
  • Jas 5:10-11 : 10 Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord. 11 We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
  • 1 Pet 3:5-6 : 5 And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands: 6 As Sarah was ruled by Abraham, naming him lord; whose children you are if you do well, and are not put in fear by any danger.
  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:
  • Matt 22:32 : 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
  • Matt 25:26 : 26 But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
  • Luke 16:22 : 22 And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.
  • Luke 20:37-38 : 37 But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 38 Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.
  • Rom 2:7 : 7 To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
  • Rom 4:12 : 12 And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.
  • Rom 8:25-26 : 25 But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it. 26 And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;
  • 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
  • 2 Thess 1:4 : 4 So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;
  • Song 1:8 : 8 If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.
  • Prov 12:24 : 24 The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
  • Prov 15:19 : 19 Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
  • Heb 11:8-9 : 8 By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going. 9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage: 10 For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God. 11 And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word; 12 So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered. 13 All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves. 15 And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back. 16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them. 17 By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,
  • Heb 11:33 : 33 Who through faith overcame kingdoms, did righteousness, got their reward, kept the mouths of lions shut,
  • Heb 12:1 : 1 For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

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  • Heb 6:9-11
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    9But, my loved ones, though we say this, we are certain that you have better things in you, things which go with salvation;

    10For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.

    11And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:

  • Heb 10:35-37
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    35So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.

    36For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

    37In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

  • Gal 6:9-10
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    9And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

    10So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.

  • Heb 6:15
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    15And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

  • Rom 12:11-12
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    11Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;

    12Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

  • Heb 12:1-3
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    1For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

    2Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

    3Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.

  • Heb 11:39
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    39And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith,

  • Heb 6:13
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    13For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

  • Jas 1:3-4
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    3Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

    4But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.

  • Rom 2:7
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    7To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

  • Heb 4:11
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    11Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

  • 2 Thess 3:13
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    13And you, my brothers, do not get tired of well-doing.

  • Heb 6:17-18
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    17So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;

    18So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

  • Rom 5:4
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    4And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

  • Heb 10:23
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    23Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:

  • Phil 3:17
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    17Brothers, take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the example we have given.

  • Rom 8:25
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    25But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

  • Heb 4:6
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    6So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,

  • Rom 15:4
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    4Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

  • Heb 4:1
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    1Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.

  • Heb 11:13
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    13All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

  • 1 Pet 1:4
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    4And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

  • 1 Thess 1:3
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    3Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

  • 2 Thess 1:4
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    4So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;

  • Jas 5:7
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    7Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

  • Heb 11:6
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    6And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

  • Eph 5:1
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    1Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

  • Rom 4:18
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    18Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

  • Heb 12:12-13
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    12For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,

    13And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.

  • 2 Pet 1:6
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    6And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

  • Heb 3:12
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    12My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

  • Heb 11:8-9
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    8By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

    9By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

  • Rev 14:12
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    12Here is the quiet strength of the saints, who keep the orders of God, and the faith of Jesus.

  • Heb 11:2
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    2For by it our fathers had God's approval.

  • Heb 13:7
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    7Keep in mind those who were over you, and who gave you the word of God; seeing the outcome of their way of life, let your faith be like theirs.

  • Heb 6:1
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    1For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,

  • Rom 4:20
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    20Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,