that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.Hebrews 6:12 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThat ye be not slothful - This shows how the full assurance of hope is to be regulated and maintained. They must be diligent; slothfulness will deprive them both of hope and faith. That faith which worketh by love will maintain hope in its full and due exercise.
Followers of them - Μιμηται δε - κληρονομουντων τας επαγγελιας· That ye be mimics or imitators of them who are inheriting the promises. And they inherited these promises by faith in him who is invisible, and who, they knew, could not lie; and they patiently endured, through difficulties and adversities of every kind, and persevered unto death. "The promises made to Abraham and to his seed were,
1. That Abraham should have a numerous seed by faith as well as by natural descent.
2. That God would be a God to him and to his seed in their generations, by being the object of their worship and their protector.
3. That he would give them the possession of Canaan.
4. That he would bless all the nations of the earth in him.
5. That he would thus bless the nations through Christ, Abraham's seed.
6. That through Christ, likewise, he would bless the nations with the Gospel revelation. Four of these promises the believing Gentiles were inheriting at the time the apostle wrote this letter.
1. They were become Abraham's seed by faith.
2. God was become the object of their worship and their protector.
3. They were enjoying the knowledge of God in the Gospel Church, and the gifts of the Spirit. Galatians 3:4.
All these blessings were bestowed upon them through Christ. By observing that the believing Gentiles were actually inheriting the promises; i.e. the four promised blessings above mentioned, the apostle appealed to an undeniable fact, in proof that the believing Gentiles, equally with the believing Jews, were heirs of the promises made to Abraham and his seed." See Dr. Macknight. The promises may be considered as referring to the rest of faith here, and the rest of glory hereafter.
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Hebrews 5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of hearing.
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Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 15:19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Proverbs 18:9 He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
Proverbs 24:30-34 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding...
Matthew 25:26 His lord answered and said to him, You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I sowed not...
Romans 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
2 Peter 1:10 Why the rather, brothers, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
but.
Hebrews 12:1 Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight...
Hebrews 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow...
Songs 1:8 If you know not, O you fairest among women, go your way forth by the footsteps of the flock...
Jeremiah 6:16 Thus said the LORD, Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein...
Romans 4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only...
James 5:10,11 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience...
1 Peter 3:5,6 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves...
faith.
Hebrews 6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
Hebrews 11:8-16 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out...
Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it...
Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
Romans 8:25,26 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it...
1 Thessalonians 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ...
Revelation 13:10 He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword...
Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
inherit.
Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
Hebrews 11:9,17,33 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob...
Matthew 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.
Luke 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
Luke 20:37,38 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac...
1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.
Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from now on: Yes, said the Spirit...
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