Hebrews 6:12

Easy To Read Version

You have had enough time that by now you should be teachers. But you need some person to teach you again the first lessons of God’s teaching. You still need the teaching that is like milk. You are not ready for solid food.

Cross References

Proverbs 12:24

People who work hard will be put in charge of other workers. But a lazy person will have to work like a slave.

Proverbs 13:4

The lazy person wants things, but he can never get them. But people who work hard will get the things they want.

Proverbs 15:19

A lazy person will have trouble everywhere. But life will be easy for honest people.

Proverbs 18:9

A person that does sloppy work is almost as bad as a person that destroys things.

Proverbs 2:20

Wisdom will help you follow the example of good people. Wisdom will help you live the way good people live.

Proverbs 26:14

A lazy person is like a door. All he does is turn in his bed like a door turns on its hinges. He never goes anywhere.

Proverbs 28:10

A bad person might make plans to hurt a good person. But the bad person will fall into his own trap. And good things will happen to the good person.

Jeremiah 6:16

The Lord says these things:\par “Stand at the crossroads and look.\par Ask where the old road is.\par Ask where the good road is,\par and walk on that road.\par If you do, you will find rest for yourselves.\par But you people have said,\par ‘We will not walk on the good road!’\par

Matthew 22:32

God said, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. {\cf2\super [314]} ’ {\cf2\super [315]} \{If God said he is their God, then\} these men are not really dead. He is the God only of living people.”

Matthew 25:26

“The master answered, ‘You are a bad and lazy servant! You say you knew that I harvest things I did not plant, and that I gather crops where I did not put any seed.

Luke 16:22

Later, Lazarus died. The angels took Lazarus and placed him in the arms of Abraham. {\cf2\super [265]} The rich man also died and was buried.

Luke 8:15

And what is the seed that fell on the good ground? That is like the people that hear God’s teaching with a good, honest heart. They obey God’s teaching and patiently make good fruit.

Romans 12:11

Don’t be lazy when you need to be working for the Lord. Be spiritually excited about serving him.

Romans 2:7

Some people live for God’s glory, for honor, and for life that cannot be destroyed. Those people live for those things by always continuing to do good. God will give life forever to those people.

Romans 4:12

And Abraham is also the father of people that have been circumcised. But it is not their circumcision that makes Abraham their father. He is their father only if they live following the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

When we pray to God our Father we always thank him for the things you have done because of your faith. And we thank him for the work you have done because of your love. And we thank him that you continue to be strong because of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

So we boast about you to the other churches of God. We tell the other churches the way you continue to be strong and have faith. You are being persecuted and are suffering many troubles, but you continue with strength and faith.

Hebrews 1:14

All the angels are spirits who serve God and are sent to help those people who will receive salvation.

Hebrews 10:36

You must be patient. After you have done what God wants, then you will get the things that he promised you.

Hebrews 11:33

All those people had great faith. And with that faith they defeated kingdoms. They did the things that are right, and they got the things that God promised. With their faith some people closed the mouths of lions.

Hebrews 12:1

We have those many people \{of faith\} around us. Their lives tell us what faith means. So we should be like them. We too should run the race that is before us and never stop trying. We should take away \{from our lives\} anything that would stop us. And we should take away the sin that so easily catches us.

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders. They taught God’s message to you. Remember how they lived and died, and copy their faith.

Hebrews 6:15

Abraham waited patiently for this to happen. And later Abraham received what God promised.

James 1:3

Why? Because you know that these things are testing your faith. And this will give you patience.

2 Peter 1:10

My brothers and sisters, God called you and chose you to be his. Do your best to live in a way that shows you really are God’s called and chosen people. If you do all those things, you will never fall.

1 John 2:25

And this is what the Son promised to us—life forever.

Revelation 13:10

If any person is to be a prisoner,\par then that person will be a prisoner.\par If any person kills with a sword,\par then that person will be killed\par with a sword.\par