Verse 12

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

Referenced Verses

  • 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,