Hebrews 6:12

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 6:9-12

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESHebrews 6:9-10.—The writer now turns from warning to conciliation and encouragement. He urges steadfastness, diligence, and growth. Better things.—Than any such tendency to apostatise. Accompany salvation.—Full salvation is meant, which includes growth and sanctifying. Farrar renders, “that are akin to salvation”: “near to, conjoined with, salvation.” As apostates are κατάρας ἐγγύες, nigh unto a curse, so those who persevere in maintaining the true religion are... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:4-20

Hebrews 6:4-20 Exhortation. I. The danger of apostasy. The Hebrews had become lukewarm, negligent and inert; the Gospel, once clearly seen and dearly loved by them, had become to them dim and vague; the persecution and contempt of their countrymen, a grievous burden under which they groaned, and with which they did not enjoy their fellowship with the Lord Jesus. Darkness, doubt, gloom, indecision, and consequently a walk in which the power of Christ's love was not manifest, characterised them.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:12

Hebrews 6:12 Indolence. I. It can never be unnecessary to dwell upon the warfare of sloth in the body. Better any diligence than any sloth. Better the strenuous idleness of bodily exercise than the sluggish, purposeless lounging which is the alternative for many. Not even that absorption of the faculties in bodily energy, not even that devotion of precious hours to interests which perish with the using, is so fatal to faith as the stagnation of all the powers in a dull, monotonous idling. Do... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 6:12

DISCOURSE: 2293EXHORTATION TO DILIGENCEHebrews 6:12. Be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.IN the general course of God’s providence, we perceive that blessings are dispensed in proportion to men’s exertions in the pursuit of them: and though the Disposer of all events sees fit, on some occasions, to vary his dispensations, loading the slothful with opulence, and suffering the industrious to be in want, yet for the most part we behold... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:1-20

Chapter 6Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, [that is the primaries, the word at the beginning of the gospel of Christ] let us go on to maturity; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit ( Hebrews 6:1-3 ).Let's leave these basic principles, doctrines of salvation and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 6:1-20

Hebrews 6:1 . Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, as a builder leaves the foundation to complete the superstructure, let us go on to perfection, which he calls here, teleióteta, perfection in knowledge and grace, a growing perfection in faith and love, progressing to the measure of the fulness of Christ, and the glorious liberty of the children of God. It is a principle constantly maintained, that our progress in grace should be associated with our knowledge of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 6:11-12

Hebrews 6:11-12Show the same diligenceThe attainment of heavenI.THE MEANS BY WHICH THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN MAY BE ATTAINED. “Faith and patience.” Faith describes the sound state of the understanding in the perception and application of religious truth; and patience denotes that calm fortitude of heart which enables us to resist every seduction, and, at the call of faith, to hold onward undaunted in the path which conscience prescribes. These virtues form, by their union, the perfection of the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 6:12

12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Ver. 12. That ye be not slothful ] A ready heart makes riddance of God’s work. Shake off sloth. Spontaneae lassitudines morbos loquuntur, saith Hippocrates. Sure I am that dulness and luskishness argue a diseased soul. But followers of them ] It was a good law that the Ephesians made, that men should propound to themselves the best patterns, and ever bear in mind some eminent man, αιεν... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 6:12

ye: Hebrews 5:11,*Gr: Proverbs 12:24, Proverbs 13:4, Proverbs 15:19, Proverbs 18:9, Proverbs 24:30-Nahum :, Matthew 25:26, Romans 12:11, 2 Peter 1:10 but: Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 13:7, Song of Solomon 1:8, Jeremiah 6:16, Romans 4:12, James 5:10, James 5:11, 1 Peter 3:5, 1 Peter 3:6 faith: Hebrews 6:15, Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews 11:8-Nehemiah :, Luke 8:15, Romans 2:7, Romans 8:25, Romans 8:26, 1 Thessalonians 1:3, Revelation 13:10, Revelation 14:12 inherit: Hebrews 1:14, Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 6:12

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.Inherited the promises — The promised rest; paradise. read more

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