Hebrews 11:6

World English Bible (2000)

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

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  • Prov 8:17 : 17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
  • Jer 29:13-14 : 13 You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.
  • Luke 12:31 : 31 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
  • Heb 4:6 : 6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,
  • Ps 119:10 : 10 With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.
  • Ps 105:3-4 : 3 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice. 4 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
  • Heb 7:25 : 25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
  • Ps 78:32 : 32 For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.
  • Heb 7:19 : 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
  • Heb 3:18-19 : 18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
  • Heb 4:2 : 2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
  • Rom 10:14 : 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • John 3:18-19 : 18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
  • Mark 16:17 : 17 These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
  • Ps 73:28 : 28 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. A contemplation by Asaph.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
  • 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.
  • Heb 11:26 : 26 accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
  • 2 Pet 1:5 : 5 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
  • Ps 78:22 : 22 because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.
  • Ps 58:11 : 11 so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth." For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
  • Num 14:11 : 11 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
  • Ps 106:24 : 24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
  • Song 3:1-4 : 1 By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him. 2 I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him. 3 The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?" 4 I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the room of her who conceived me.
  • Isa 7:9 : 9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'"
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 Generation, consider the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'
  • Ps 106:21-22 : 21 They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.
  • Num 20:12 : 12 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."
  • Ruth 2:12 : 12 May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge."
  • Job 21:14 : 14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
  • Gen 15:1 : 1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
  • Matt 5:12 : 12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
  • Matt 6:1-2 : 1 "Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 2 Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
  • Matt 6:5 : 5 "When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
  • Matt 6:16 : 16 "Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
  • John 8:24 : 24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."
  • Luke 6:35 : 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
  • Matt 10:41-42 : 41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. 42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."

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  • Heb 11:1-5
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    1Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

    2For by this, the elders obtained testimony.

    3By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

    4By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

    5By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

  • Heb 11:7-11
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    7By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

    8By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

    9By faith, he lived as an alien 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 has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

    11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

  • Heb 11:39-40
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    39These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,

    40God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • Heb 11:26-27
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    26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

    27By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

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

  • Gal 3:6
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    6Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

  • Gen 15:6
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    6He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

  • Heb 10:36-38
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    36For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

    37"In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

    38But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

  • Rom 4:5-6
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    5But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

    6Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

  • Heb 6:11-12
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    11We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

    12that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

  • Gal 3:11
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    11Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

  • Heb 10:23
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    23let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

  • Jas 2:20
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    20But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

  • Jas 1:6-7
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    6But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

    7For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

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    8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory--

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    16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

    17By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

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    6Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

  • John 6:29
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    29Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

  • Jas 2:26
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    26For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

  • Jas 2:17
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    17Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

  • Rom 10:17
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    17So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

  • Rom 4:20-21
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    20Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

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

  • Jas 2:22
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    22You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;

  • Heb 4:11
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    11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

  • Heb 3:18
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    18To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

  • Jas 2:24
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    24You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

  • 2 Cor 5:7
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    7for we walk by faith, not by sight.

  • 2 Tim 2:13
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    13If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself."

  • Heb 11:19
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    19concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

  • Rom 3:3
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    3For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?