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

Hebrews 6:15

Bible References

Ye

Concerning whom we have much to discourse, and of difficult interpretation to explain, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

Marriage is honourable for all persons, and the marriage bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Then his master answering said to him, Thou wicked and idle slave, thou knewest that I reap whence I had not sown, and gather where I had not scattered:

not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord:

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make sure your calling and election: for by doing these things, ye shall never at any time stumble:

Faith

And so after long patient waiting he obtained the promise.

For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

By faith Abraham, called to go forth unto a place which he should in future obtain as an heritage, obeyed; and he went forth, not knowing whither he was going.

But that on the good ground are they who having heard the word, retain it in a heart excellent and good, and bring forth fruit with patience.

to those who, in the patient practice of good works, seek glory and honour and immortality??ternal life.

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

without ceasing calling to mind your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

If any person leads [others] into captivity, he shall be led into captivity; if any person kills with the sword, he must be slain by the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Inherit

Are they not all ministerial spirits, sent to perform service on account of those who are about to inherit salvation?

For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.

"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.

Now it came to pass that the poor man died, and was carried up by angels into the bosom of Abraham. Then the rich man also died, and was buried:

Now that the dead are raised, even Moses intimated at the bush, when he called the Lord, "the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."

And this is the promise which he hath promised to us, even life eternal.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, from henceforward: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may have rest from their labours; but their works follow after them.

General references

And so after long patient waiting he obtained the promise.