Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great 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 brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
- Gal 6:8–10For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
- 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.
- Luke 14:14And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
- Heb 11:26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
- 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.
- Matt 5:12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
- Heb 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
- Matt 10:32Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
- Matt 10:42And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
- Ps 19:11Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
- Heb 2:2For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
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