and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sakes,
indeed, it is tilled, has a share in God's blessing.
006:008 But if it only yields a mass of thorns and briers, it is
considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed,
and in the end will be destroyed by fire.
006:009 But we, even while we speak in this tone, have a happier
conviction concerning you, my dearly-loved friends--
a conviction of things which point towards salvation.
006:010 For God is not unjust so that He is unmindful of your labour and
of the love which you have manifested towards Himself in having
rendered services to His people and in still rendering them.
006:011 But we long for each of you to continue to manifest
the same earnestness, with a view to your enjoying fulness
of hope to the very End;
006:012 so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators
of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs
to the promises.
006:013 For when God gave the promise to Abraham, since He had no one
greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
006:014 saying, "Assuredly I will bless you and bless you, I will
increase you and increase you."
006:015 And so, as the result of patient waiting, our forefather
obtained what God had promised.
006:016 For men swear by what is greater than themselves; and with them
an oath in confirmation of a statement always puts an end
to a dispute.
006:017 In the same way, since it was God's desire to display more
convincingly to the heirs of the promise how unchangeable
His purpose was,
006:018 He added an oath, in order that, through two unchangeable things,