Hebrews 6:18

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Hebrews 6:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Two

Impossible

1 John 5:10

We might

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Who

Lay

1 Timothy 6:12

Set

Hebrews 12:1

Romans 3:25

General references

Bible References

Two

so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.

(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent of it, Thou art priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec;)

Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away.

Impossible

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither a son of man, that he should repent. Shall he say and not do? and shall he speak and not make it good?

And also the Hope of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.

if we are unfaithful, he abides faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time,

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son.

We might

I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou fearest a man that shall die, and the son of man that shall become as grass;

Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her; rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her:

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was just and pious, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Now the God of endurance and of encouragement give to you to be like-minded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus;

Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.

If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

But our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope by grace,

Who

By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.

then ye shall appoint for yourselves cities: cities of refuge shall they be for you; that a manslayer may flee thither, who without intent smiteth a person mortally.

that the slayer who unwittingly without intent smiteth any one mortally may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamoth. A song.} God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found.

Confide in him at all times, ye people; pour out your heart before him: God is our refuge. Selah.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

Turn again to the stronghold, prisoners of hope! even to-day do I declare I will render double unto thee.

But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?

and all things are of the God who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:

and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.

Lay

And the report came to Joab (for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he had not turned after Absalom); and Joab fled to the tent of Jehovah, and caught hold of the horns of the altar.

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is he that retaineth her.

Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

Or let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me: yea, let him make peace with me.

for thus saith Jehovah: Unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

and there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hidden thy face from us, and hast caused us to melt away through our iniquities.

Strive earnestly in the good conflict of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

Set

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

General references

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

that the manslayer might flee thither, who should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not previously, that fleeing to one of these cities, he might live:

For I lift up my hand to the heavens, and say, I live for ever!

There failed nothing of all the good things that Jehovah had spoken to the house of Israel: all came to pass.

In God will I praise his word; in Jehovah will I praise his word.

A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; the simple pass on, and are punished.

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me, since I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth: so have I sworn that I will no more be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

Thou wilt perform truth to Jacob, loving-kindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers, from the days of old.