Hebrews 6:12

They are not to become spiritually lazy but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Endurance, modeled by the faithful before them, secures the promised inheritance.

Cross-references · 33

• Heb 13:7Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
• Heb 10:36You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
• Rom 12:11Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
• 1 Jn 2:25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
• Jer 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
• Rom 2:7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
• Jas 1:3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
• Prov 18:9Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.
• Prov 24:30–34I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
• Heb 5:11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
• Rev 14:12–13Here is a call for the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
• 2 Pet 1:10Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,
• Rom 4:12And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
• Heb 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
• Heb 1:14Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
• Rom 8:25–26But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
• Heb 6:15And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.
• Jas 5:10–11Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
• Luke 8:15But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
• Heb 11:8–17By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
• Heb 11:33who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,
• Prov 15:19The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
• Luke 20:37–38Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
• Prov 12:24The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
• Matt 22:32‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
• Prov 13:4The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
• 2 Th 1:4That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.
• Rev 13:10“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.
• 1 Th 1:3and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Matt 25:26‘You wicked, lazy servant!’ replied his master. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.
• Luke 16:22One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
• 1 Pet 3:5–6For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,
• Song 1:8If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.

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