Hebrews 3:14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

English Standard Version
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

New American Standard Bible
For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,

King James Bible
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For we have become companions of the Messiah if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.

International Standard Version
because we are the Messiah's partners only if we hold on to our original confidence to the end.

American Standard Version
for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

Darby Bible Translation
For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end;

Young's Literal Translation
for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:35
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers.

Romans 11:22
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.

Hebrews 3:6
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:14-19 The saints' privilege is, they are made partakers of Christ, that is, of the Spirit, the nature, graces, righteousness, and life of Christ; they are interested in all Christ is, in all he has done, or will do. The same spirit with which Christians set out in the ways of God, they should maintain unto the end. Perseverance in faith is the best evidence of the sincerity of our faith. Hearing the word often is a means of salvation, yet, if not hearkened to, it will expose more to the Divine wrath. The happiness of being partakers of Christ and his complete salvation, and the fear of God's wrath and eternal misery, should stir us up to persevere in the life of obedient faith. Let us beware of trusting to outward privileges or professions, and pray to be numbered with the true believers who enter heaven, when all others fail because of unbelief. As our obedience follows according to the power of our faith, so our sins and want of care are according to the prevailing of unbelief in us.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. For, &c.—enforcing the warning, Heb 3:12.

partakers of Christ—(Compare Heb 3:1, 6). So "partakers of the Holy Ghost" (Heb 6:4).

hold—Greek, "hold fast."

the beginning of our confidence—that is, the confidence (literally, substantial, solid confidence) of faith which we have begun (Heb 6:11; 12:2). A Christian so long as he is not made perfect, considers himself as a beginner [Bengel].

unto the end—unto the coming of Christ (Heb 12:2).