So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
- KJV Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of 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 and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
- Gal 6:8–10The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
- Heb 3:6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
- Luke 14:14and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
- Heb 11:26He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.
- Heb 4:14Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.
- Matt 5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
- Heb 3:14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
- Matt 10:32Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
- Matt 10:42And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
- Ps 19:11By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.
- Heb 2:2For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,
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