Hebrews 10:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering ;(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, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Thess 5:24 : 24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Heb 11:11 : 11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Jas 1:6 : 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Titus 1:2 : 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Heb 4:14 : 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Heb 6:18 : 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
Rev 3:11 : 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Heb 4:14
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14Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
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21And having an high priest over the house of God;
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17Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
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