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 many things to say, and hard to be explained, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

His lord answering said to him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather whence I had not scattered?

Not slothful in business, servent in spirit, serving the Lord:

Wherefore the rather, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and election firm; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

Faith

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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

By faith Abraham, being called to go out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, obeyed and went out, not knowing whither he went.

But that on the good ground are they, who, having heard the word, keep it in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with perseverance.

and honour, and immortality, eternal life.

But if we hope for what we see not, we patiently wait for it.

Remembring without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father:

If any leadeth into captivity, he goeth into captivity: if any man kill with the sword, he must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faithfulness of the saints.

Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Inherit

Are they not all ministring spirits, sent forth to serve for them who shall inherit salvation?

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

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint heirs of the same promise.

and the God of Jacob.

And the beggar died and was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died and was buried:

But that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth 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 us, eternal life.

And I heard a voice out of heaven, saying to me, Write: From henceforth happy are the dead who die in the Lord: Yea (saith the Spirit) that they may rest from their labours. Their works follow them.

General references

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.