Hebrews 6:12

English Standard Version 2016

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Cross References

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

1 John 2:25

And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.

Romans 12:11

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Hebrews 5:11

About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.

James 1:3

for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Hebrews 1:14

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

Romans 4:12

and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Romans 2:7

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Proverbs 18:9

Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

Revelation 13:10

If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

Hebrews 11:33

who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

Hebrews 6:15

And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.

Luke 8:15

As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.

Matthew 22:32

‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”

Proverbs 15:19

The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Luke 16:22

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried,

Matthew 25:26

But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?

Song of Solomon 1:8

If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

Proverbs 2:20

So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.

Proverbs 28:10

Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.

Proverbs 26:14

As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.