Hebrews 6:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Heb 10:36 : 36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
  • Heb 13:7 : 7 Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: 33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; 34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus says Yahweh, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, 'Where is the good way?' and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
  • Heb 1:14 : 14 Aren't they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
  • Heb 5:11 : 11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
  • 1 John 2:25 : 25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
  • Rev 13:10 : 10 If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
  • Prov 18:9 : 9 One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
  • Rev 14:12-13 : 12 Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." 13 I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."
  • Heb 6:15 : 15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
  • Jas 1:3 : 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
  • Jas 5:10-11 : 10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11 Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
  • 1 Pet 3:5-6 : 5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
  • 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.
  • 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 answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • Luke 16:22 : 22 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
  • Luke 20:37-38 : 37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called 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 are alive to him."
  • Rom 2:7 : 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
  • Rom 4:12 : 12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
  • Rom 8:25-26 : 25 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience. 26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
  • 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
  • 2 Thess 1:4 : 4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
  • Song 1:8 : 8 If you don't know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.
  • Prov 12:24 : 24 The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
  • Prov 15:19 : 19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
  • Heb 11:8-9 : 8 By 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. 9 By 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. 10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 By 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. 12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead. 13 These 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. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. 15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. 16 But 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. 17 By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;
  • Heb 11:33 : 33 who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
  • Heb 12:1 : 1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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  • Heb 6:9-11
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    9 But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

    10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

    11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

  • Heb 10:35-37
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    35 Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

    36 For 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.

  • Gal 6:9-10
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    9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

    10 So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

  • Heb 6:15
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    15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

  • Rom 12:11-12
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    11 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

    12 rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

  • Heb 12:1-3
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    1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

    2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

    3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.

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

  • Heb 6:13
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    13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

  • Jas 1:3-4
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    3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

    4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

  • Rom 2:7
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    7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

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

  • 2 Thess 3:13
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    13 But you, brothers, don't be weary in doing well.

  • Heb 6:17-18
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    17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

    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 take hold of the hope set before us.

  • Rom 5:4
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    4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

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

  • Phil 3:17
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    17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

  • Rom 8:25
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    25 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

  • Heb 4:6
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    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,

  • Rom 15:4
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    4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

  • Heb 4:1
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    1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

  • Heb 11:13
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    13 These 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.

  • 1 Pet 1:4
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    4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

  • 1 Thess 1:3
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    3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

  • 2 Thess 1:4
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    4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

  • Jas 5:7
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    7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

  • Heb 11:6
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    6 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.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.

  • Eph 5:1
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    1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

  • Rom 4:18
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    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 will your seed be."

  • Heb 12:12-13
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    12 Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

    13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

  • 2 Pet 1:6
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    6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;

  • Heb 3:12
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    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 11:8-9
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    8 By 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.

    9 By 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.

  • Rev 14:12
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    12 Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."

  • Heb 11:2
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    2 For by this, the elders obtained testimony.

  • Heb 13:7
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    7 Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

  • Heb 6:1
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    1 Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

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