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For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
Hebrews 10:36 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
  • KJV For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
  • BSB You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
  • NKJV For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
  • NLT Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

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Quick answer

You need endurance to do God's will and receive what he has promised. Perseverance is the path to the promised inheritance.

Overview

The believers need 'endurance', steadfast perseverance, so that, having done God's will, they may receive his promise. The Christian life requires patient continuance, not a single burst of zeal. The promised reward awaits those who persevere to the end in faith and obedience.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 36

  • Heb 12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
  • Ps 37:7Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
  • Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
  • 1 Cor 13:7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  • Luke 21:19“By your endurance you will win your lives.
  • Heb 6:15Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
  • Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
  • Rev 14:12Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
  • Jas 1:3–4knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
  • Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
  • Gal 6:9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
  • Rom 8:25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
  • 1 Jn 2:17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
  • Col 1:11strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
  • Heb 9:15For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
  • Col 3:24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
  • Heb 6:12that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.
  • Rom 15:4–5For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
  • Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Pet 1:9receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
  • Luke 8:15That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.
  • Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
  • Matt 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
  • Matt 24:13But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
  • Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Col 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
  • Rom 5:3–4Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
  • John 7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
  • Acts 13:22When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
  • Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
  • Eph 6:6not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
  • 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
  • Heb 6:17In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
  • Rev 13:10If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
  • Ps 40:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
  • Acts 13:36For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

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Christ at the center

Hebrews is sustained worship of Christ: better than angels, Moses, and the priests; the great High Priest after Melchizedek who by one sacrifice perfects forever those he saves.

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