Hebrews 6:12

A Serious Warning Against Falling Away

¹¹ And we desire each one of you to demonstrate the same diligence for the full assurance of [your] hope until the end, ¹² in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience. ¹³ For [when] God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater to swear by, he swore by himself,

By Faith

In Christ

Faint Not

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of endurance, in order that [after you] have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you; {considering the outcome of their way of life}, imitate their faith.

Hebrews 1:14

Are they not all spirits engaged in special service, sent on assignment for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

Revelation 13:10

If anyone [is going] into captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone [is] to be killed by the sword, by the sword he [is] to be killed. Here is the patient endurance and the faith of the saints.

Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent ones will rule, but the lazy will belong to forced labor.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the lazy craves, but there is nothing, but the person of diligence is richly supplied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.

Proverbs 18:9

Even he who is slack in his work, he is brother to a master of destruction.

Proverbs 24:30-34

I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking {sense};

Song of Songs 1:8

If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow {the tracks} of the flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds.

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says Yahweh: "Stand at [the] roads and look, and ask for [the] ancient paths, where the way of the good [is], and walk in it, and find rest for your inner selves. But they said, 'We will not walk [in it].'

Matthew 22:32

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

Matthew 25:26

But his master answered [and] said to him, 'Evil and lazy slave! You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather from where I did not scatter [seed].

Luke 8:15

But the [seed] on the good soil--these are the ones who, [after] hearing the word, hold fast to [it] with a noble and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance.

Luke 16:22

Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to {Abraham's side}. And the rich man also died and was buried.

Luke 20:37-38

But that the dead are raised, even Moses revealed in [the passage about] the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and [the] God of Isaac and [the] God of Jacob.

Romans 2:7

to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life,

Romans 4:12

and the father {of those who are circumcised} to those who are not only from the circumcision, but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham {which he had while uncircumcised}.

Romans 8:25-26

But if we hope for what we do not see, we await [it] eagerly with patient endurance.

Romans 12:11

not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord,

1 Thessalonians 1:3

[because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

2 Thessalonians 1:4

so that we ourselves boast in you in the churches of God about your patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring,

Hebrews 5:11

Concerning this {we have much to say and it is difficult to explain}, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

Hebrews 6:15

And so, [by] persevering, he obtained the promise.

Hebrews 11:8-17

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

Hebrews 11:33

who through faith conquered kingdoms, accomplished justice, obtained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,

James 1:3

[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

James 5:10-11

Brothers, take [as an] example of perseverance and endurance the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

1 Peter 3:5-6

For in the [same] way formerly the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves [by] being subject to their own husbands,

2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because [if you] do these [things], you will never ever stumble.

1 John 2:25

And this is the promise which he himself promised us: eternal life.

Revelation 14:12-13

Here is the patient endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith in Jesus.