Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
Parallel translations
- KJV Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
- BSB So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
- NKJV Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.
- NASB Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
- NLT So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!
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Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which carries a great reward. Persevering faith will be richly rewarded.
Overview
The author exhorts the readers not to cast away the bold confidence they had shown. This 'boldness' toward God, grounded in Christ, brings 'a great reward'. The verse encourages believers to hold firm, assuring them that faithfulness is not in vain but will be abundantly rewarded by God.
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Cross-references · 12
- 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
- Gal 6:8–10For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
- Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
- Luke 14:14and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
- Heb 11:26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
- Heb 4:14Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
- Matt 5:12Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
- Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
- Matt 10:32Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.
- Matt 10:42Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
- Ps 19:11Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
- Heb 2:2For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
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