Hebrews 6:12

New Century Version

We do not want you to become lazy. Be like those who through faith and patience will receive what God has promised.

Cross References

Proverbs 12:24

Hard workers will become leaders, but those who are lazy will be slaves.

Proverbs 13:4

The lazy will not get what they want, but those who work hard will.

Proverbs 15:19

A lazy person’s life is like a patch of thorns, but an honest person’s life is like a smooth highway.

Proverbs 18:9

A person who doesn’t work hard is just like someone who destroys things.

Proverbs 2:20

But wisdom will help you be good and do what is right.

Proverbs 26:14

Like a door turning back and forth on its hinges, the lazy person turns over and over in bed.

Proverbs 28:10

Those who lead good people to do wrong will be ruined by their own evil, but the innocent will be rewarded with good things.

Song of Solomon 1:8

You are the most beautiful of women. Surely you know to follow the sheep and feed your young goats near the shepherds’ tents.

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the Lord says: “Stand where the roads cross and look. Ask where the old way is, where the good way is, and walk on it. If you do, you will find rest for yourselves. But they have said, ‘We will not walk on the good way.’

Matthew 22:32

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

Matthew 25:26

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

Luke 16:22

Later, Lazarus died, and the angels carried him to the arms of Abraham. The rich man died, too, and was buried.

Luke 8:15

And the seed that fell on the good ground is like those who hear God’s teaching with good, honest hearts and obey it and patiently produce good fruit.

Romans 12:11

Do not be lazy but work hard, serving the Lord with all your heart.

Romans 2:7

Some people, by always continuing to do good, live for God’s glory, for honor, and for life that has no end. God will give them life forever.

Romans 4:12

And Abraham is also the father of those who have been circumcised and who live following the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

We continually recall before God our Father the things you have done because of your faith and 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 brag about you to the other churches of God. We tell them about the way you continue to be strong and have faith even though you are being treated badly and are suffering many troubles.

Hebrews 1:14

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

Hebrews 10:36

You must hold on, so you can do what God wants and receive what he has promised.

Hebrews 11:33

Through their faith they defeated kingdoms. They did what was right, received God’s promises, and shut the mouths of lions.

Hebrews 12:1

We are surrounded by a great cloud of people whose lives tell us what faith means. So let us run the race that is before us and never give up. We should remove from our lives anything that would get in the way and the sin that so easily holds us back.

Hebrews 13:7

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

Hebrews 5:11

We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are so slow to understand.

Hebrews 6:15

Abraham waited patiently for this to happen, and he received what God promised.

James 1:3

because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience.

2 Peter 1:10

My brothers and sisters, try hard to be certain that you really are called and chosen by God. If you do all these things, you will never fall.

1 John 2:25

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

Revelation 13:10

If you are to be a prisoner, then you will be a prisoner. If you are to be killed with the sword, then you will be killed with the sword. This means that God’s holy people must have patience and faith.