Hebrews 6:15

World English Bible (2000)

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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  • Heb 6:12 : 12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
  • Gen 12:2-3 : 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."
  • Gen 15:2-6 : 2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir." 4 Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir." 5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be." 6 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
  • Gen 17:16-17 : 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her." 17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
  • Gen 21:2-7 : 2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him. 6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me." 7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
  • Exod 1:7 : 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
  • Hab 2:2-3 : 2 Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it. 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.
  • Rom 4:17-25 : 17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were. 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." 19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. 20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform. 22 Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness." 23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone, 24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead, 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

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  • Heb 10:36-37
    2 verses
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    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.

  • Heb 6:11-14
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    11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

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

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

    14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."

  • Heb 6:16-18
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    74%

    16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

    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.

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

  • Rom 4:18-21
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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."

    19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

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

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

  • Heb 11:17-19
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    73%

    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;

    18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

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

  • Gen 15:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."

    6 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

  • Heb 11:8-11
    4 verses
    71%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 16:16-17
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    16 [the covenant] which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

    17 He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Jas 5:11
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    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.

  • Heb 11:2
    69%

    2 For by this, the elders obtained testimony.

  • Ps 105:9
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    9 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

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

  • Rom 9:9
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    9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

  • 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.

  • Jas 1:12
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    12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

  • Gal 3:15
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    15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

  • Heb 5:8
    68%

    8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

  • Gen 22:16
    68%

    16 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

  • 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.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

  • Luke 1:73
    67%

    73 the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father,

  • Gen 21:2
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    2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • 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.

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

  • Gen 26:5
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    5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

  • 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.

  • Gen 17:19
    67%

    19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

  • Ps 105:42
    67%

    42 For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

  • Gen 22:18
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    18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."