Hebrews 6:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

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  • Heb 10:36 : 36 for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,
  • Heb 13:7 : 7 Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart. 31 And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down. 32 And I see -- I -- I do set my heart, I have seen -- I have received instruction, 33 A little sleep -- a little slumber -- A little folding of the hands to lie down. 34 And thy poverty hath come `as' a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where `is' this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'
  • Heb 1:14 : 14 are they not all spirits of service -- for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?
  • Heb 5:11 : 11 concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,
  • 1 John 2:25 : 25 and this is the promise that He did promise us -- the life the age-during.
  • Rev 13:10 : 10 if any one a captivity doth gather, into captivity he doth go away; if any one by sword doth kill, it behoveth him by sword to be killed; here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
  • Prov 18:9 : 9 He also that is remiss in his work, A brother he `is' to a destroyer.
  • Rev 14:12-13 : 12 Here is endurance of the saints: here `are' those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.' 13 And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!'
  • Heb 6:15 : 15 and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;
  • Jas 1:3 : 3 knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,
  • Jas 5:10-11 : 10 An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord; 11 lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.
  • 1 Pet 3:5-6 : 5 for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands, 6 as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.
  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may 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 a God of dead men, but of living.'
  • Matt 25:26 : 26 `And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 `And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain `it', and bear fruit in continuance.
  • Luke 16:22 : 22 `And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham -- and the rich man also died, and was buried;
  • Luke 20:37-38 : 37 `And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; 38 and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'
  • Rom 2:7 : 7 to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;
  • Rom 4:12 : 12 and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that `is' in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.
  • Rom 8:25-26 : 25 and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect `it'. 26 And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth `us', we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;
  • 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,
  • 2 Thess 1:4 : 4 so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;
  • Song 1:8 : 8 If thou knowest not, O fair among women, Get thee forth by the traces of the flock, And feed thy kids by the shepherds' dwellings!
  • Prov 12:24 : 24 The hand of the diligent ruleth, And slothfulness becometh tributary.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.
  • Prov 15:19 : 19 The way of the slothful `is' as a hedge of briers, And the path of the upright is raised up.
  • Heb 11:8-9 : 8 By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go; 9 by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise, 10 for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor `is' God. 11 By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise; 12 wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that `is' by the sea-shore -- the innumerable. 13 In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, 14 for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; 15 and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, 16 but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city. 17 By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,
  • Heb 11:33 : 33 who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,
  • Heb 12:1 : 1 Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

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  • Heb 6:9-11
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    9and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak,

    10for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

    11and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,

  • Heb 10:35-37
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    35Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

    36for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

    37for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;

  • Gal 6:9-10
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    9and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

    10therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

  • Heb 6:15
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    15and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;

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

    12in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

  • Heb 12:1-3
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    1Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

    2looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

    3for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.

  • Heb 11:39
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    39and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

  • Heb 6:13
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    13For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

  • Jas 1:3-4
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    3knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

    4and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

  • Rom 2:7
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    7to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;

  • Heb 4:11
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    11May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

  • 2 Thess 3:13
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    13and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

  • Heb 6:17-18
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    17in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

    18that through two immutable things, in which `it is' impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before `us',

  • Rom 5:4
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    4and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

  • Heb 10:23
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    23may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful `is' He who did promise),

  • Phil 3:17
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    17become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;

  • Rom 8:25
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    25and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect `it'.

  • Heb 4:6
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    6since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --

  • Rom 15:4
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    4for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

  • Heb 4:1
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    1We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

  • Heb 11:13
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    13In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

  • 1 Pet 1:4
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    4to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

  • 1 Thess 1:3
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    3unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

  • 2 Thess 1:4
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    4so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;

  • Jas 5:7
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    7Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;

  • Heb 11:6
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    6and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

  • Eph 5:1
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    1Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

  • Rom 4:18
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    18Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: `So shall thy seed be;'

  • Heb 12:12-13
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    12Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

    13and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;

  • 2 Pet 1:6
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    6and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,

  • Heb 3:12
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    12See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

  • Heb 11:8-9
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    8By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

    9by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,

  • Rev 14:12
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    12Here is endurance of the saints: here `are' those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

  • Heb 11:2
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    2for in this were the elders testified of;

  • Heb 13:7
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    7Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,

  • Heb 6:1
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    1Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

  • Rom 4:20
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    20and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,