And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
Parallel translations
- WEB We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
- BSB We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure.
- NKJV And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end,
- NASB And we desire that each one of you demonstrate the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end,
- NLT Our great desire is that you will keep on loving others as long as life lasts, in order to make certain that what you hope for will come true.
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Quick answer
The writer longs for each of them to show the same diligence to the very end, so their hope may be full. Perseverance to the finish is his earnest desire for them.
Overview
He calls for sustained earnestness, not just past service but continued diligence to the end. 'The fullness of hope' is the assured, mature confidence that comes from persevering. This expresses the pastoral heart of the letter: that believers finish the race and inherit the promise.
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- 2 Pet 1:5–8And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
- 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.
- Rom 5:2–5By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Heb 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
- Heb 10:22Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
- 2 Pet 1:10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
- Rev 2:26And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
- 1 Jn 3:14We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
- Heb 10:32–35But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
- 1 Jn 3:1–3Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
- Isa 32:17And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
- Rom 15:13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
- 2 Th 3:13But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
- 2 Pet 3:14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
- 1 Cor 13:13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
- Matt 24:13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
- 1 Th 4:10And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
- 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.
- Rom 12:11–12Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
- Gal 6:9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
- Phil 3:15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
- Col 1:5For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
- 1 Th 1:5For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
- 1 Pet 1:3–5Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- Rom 12:8Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
- Rom 8:24–25For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
- 1 Pet 1:21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
- Col 2:2That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
- Col 1:23If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
- Phil 1:9–11And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
- 1 Jn 3:19And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
- Heb 6:18–20That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
- 2 Th 2:16–17Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
- Gal 5:5For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
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