Hebrews 3:6

Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house, and believers are that house if they hold firmly to their confidence and hope. Perseverance evidences genuine belonging to Christ.

Cross-references · 35

• 2 Cor 6:16What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
• 1 Cor 3:16Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
• Heb 10:35Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
• 1 Pet 2:5You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• Heb 6:11We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
• 1 Cor 6:19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
• Heb 4:11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• Heb 10:23let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
• 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 10:38–39But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
• 1 Tim 3:15but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
• 1 Pet 1:3–6Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Heb 1:2has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
• Rev 3:11I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
• Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• Rom 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Matt 24:13But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
• 1 Th 5:16Rejoice always.
• 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
• Ps 2:12Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
• Rev 2:18“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
• Rev 2:25Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.
• Rom 11:22See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
• Heb 3:2–3who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.
• 1 Pet 1:8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
• Gal 6:9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
• Rom 5:2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Eph 2:21–22in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
• Rom 12:12rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
• Isa 9:6–7For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Ps 2:6–7“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
• John 3:35–36The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
• Matt 16:18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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