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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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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Ps 19:11Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
- 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.”
- Heb 2:2For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
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