Hebrews 6:12

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Summary

Hebrews 6:12

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Ye

2 Peter 1:10

Faith

Inherit

General references

Proverbs 2:20

Proverbs 26:14

Hebrews 6:15

Bible References

Ye

About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit,serve the Lord.

Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.

Faith

And thus Abraham,having patiently waited, obtained the promise.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain.Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

Inherit

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not God of the dead, but of the living."

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

And this is the promise that he made to us--eternal life.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.""Blessed indeed," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!"

General references

So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.

As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.

And thus Abraham,having patiently waited, obtained the promise.