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, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
• Heb 10:36For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
• Rom 12:11not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
• 1 Jn 2:25This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
• Jer 6:16Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and 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 well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Jas 1:3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
• Prov 18:9One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
• Prov 24:30–34I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
• Heb 5:11About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
• Rev 14:12–13Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
• 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.
• Rom 4:12He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
• 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,
• Heb 1:14Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
• Rom 8:25–26But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
• Heb 6:15Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
• Jas 5:10–11Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
• 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.
• Heb 11:8–17By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
• Heb 11:33who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
• Prov 15:19The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
• Luke 20:37–38But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
• Prov 12:24The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.
• Matt 22:32‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
• Prov 13:4The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
• 2 Th 1:4so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
• 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.
• 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.
• Matt 25:26“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.
• Luke 16:22The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
• 1 Pet 3:5–6For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
• Song 1:8If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

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