Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Parallel translations
- WEB let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
- BSB Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
- NKJV Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
- NASB Let’s hold firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;
- NLT Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.
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Quick answer
Let us hold firmly to our confessed hope without wavering, because God is faithful to his promise. Our perseverance rests on God's reliability.
Overview
The second exhortation: hold fast our hope. Believers are to remain steadfast in confessing their hope, anchored not in their own strength but in the faithfulness of the God who promised. Because 'he who promised is faithful', our hope is secure, encouraging perseverance amid trials.
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Cross-references · 12
- 1 Th 5:24Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
- 1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
- 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
- Heb 6:18That 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:
- Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
- Heb 3:6But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
- 1 Cor 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
- Rev 3:11Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
- Jas 1:6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
- Heb 4:14Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
- Heb 11:11Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
- Heb 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
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