Hebrews 11:6

It is impossible to please God without faith, for anyone who approaches him must believe both that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Faith is the necessary foundation of true religion.

Cross-references · 40

• Prov 8:17I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
• Jer 29:13–14You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
• Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• Ps 105:3–4Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
• Luke 12:31But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
• Ps 119:10With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
• Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
• Heb 3:12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
• Rom 10:14How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
• Ps 73:28But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• John 3:18–19He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
• Heb 4:6Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,
• 2 Pet 1:5Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
• John 8:24I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• 2 Pet 3:14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
• Heb 3:18–19To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
• Num 14:11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
• 2 Pet 1:10Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
• Heb 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
• Prov 11:18Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
• Heb 11:26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
• Num 20:12Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
• Ps 78:32For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
• Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
• Ps 106:21–22They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
• Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
• Heb 4:2For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.
• Mark 16:17These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
• Matt 10:41–42He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.
• Song 3:1–4By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
• Isa 7:9and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
• Ps 58:11so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”
• Gen 15:1After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
• Job 21:14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
• Ps 78:22because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.
• Ps 106:24Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,
• Luke 6:35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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