We don’t want you to slow down. Instead, be like those who have faith and are patient. They will receive what God promised.

并且不懈怠，总要效法那些凭信心和忍耐承受应许的人。

这样你们才不会懒惰，却成为效法那些藉着信和忍耐承受应许的人。

这样你们才不会懒惰，却成为效法那些藉着信和忍耐承受应许的人。

这样，你们就不致懒散，可以效法那些凭信心和忍耐承受应许的人。

并且不要懒惰，却要效法那些凭着信心和忍耐承受应许的人。

这样，你们就不会变得懈怠，反而会效法那些藉着信仰和耐心去继承各样应许的人。

並且不懈怠，總要效法那些憑信心和忍耐承受應許的人。

這樣你們才不會懶惰，卻成為效法那些藉着信和忍耐承受應許的人。

這樣你們才不會懶惰，卻成為效法那些藉着信和忍耐承受應許的人。

這樣，你們就不致懶散，可以效法那些憑信心和忍耐承受應許的人。

並且不要懶惰，卻要效法那些憑著信心和忍耐承受應許的人。

不至於懈怠，倒能效法那些憑信心與恆忍來承受應許的人。

這樣，你們就不會變得懈怠，反而會效法那些藉著信仰和耐心去繼承各樣應許的人。

致爾勿怠、惟效由信與忍而承所許者、○

爾勿惰慢、昔諸信主恆忍者、彼獲所許之福、爾其則傚、

爾曹匆怠、當效彼因信及忍而得所許者、○

切勿有所懈弛、當踵效昔賢、篤信不移、堅忍不拔、而終得承嗣恩諾也。

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Then you will not become spiritually dull and indifferent. Instead, you will follow the example of those who are going to inherit God’s promises because of their faith and endurance.

so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.

so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and endurance inherit the promises.

that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Remember your leaders. They spoke God’s word to you. Think about the results of their way of life. Copy their faith.

You need to be faithful. Then you will do what God wants. You will receive what he has promised.

We have a lot to say about this. But it is hard to make it clear to you. That’s because you are no longer trying to understand.

I went past the field of someone who didn’t want to work. I went past the vineyard of someone who didn’t have any sense.Thorns had grown up everywhere. The ground was covered with weeds. The stone wall had fallen down.I applied my heart to what I observed. I learned a lesson from what I saw.You might sleep a little or take a little nap. You might even fold your hands and rest.Then you would be poor, as if someone had robbed you. You would have little, as if someone had stolen from you.

Anyone who doesn’t want to work is like someone who destroys.

The Lord tells the people of Judah,“ Stand where the roads cross, and look around. Ask where the old paths are. Ask for the good path, and walk on it. Then your hearts will find rest in me. But you said,‘ We won’t walk on it.’

“ Everyone who is supposed to be captured will be captured. Everyone who is supposed to be killed by a sword will be killed by a sword.”( Jeremiah 15:2) So God’s people must be patient and faithful.

All angels are spirits who serve. God sends them to serve those who will receive salvation.

“ You are the most beautiful woman of all. Don’t you know where to find the king? Follow the tracks the sheep make. Take care of your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.”

He said,‘ I am the God of Abraham. I am the God of Isaac. And I am the God of Jacob.’( Exodus 3:6) He is not the God of the dead. He is the God of the living.”

My brothers and sisters, try very hard to show that God has appointed you to be saved. Try hard to show that he has chosen you. If you do everything I have just said, you will never trip and fall.

So among God’s churches we brag about the fact that you don’t give up easily. We brag about your faith in all the suffering and testing you are going through.

“ His master replied,‘ You evil, lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I have not planted? You knew that I gather crops where I have not scattered seed?

But the seed on good soil stands for those with an honest and good heart. Those people hear the message. They keep it in their hearts. They remain faithful and produce a good crop.

God’s people need to be very patient. They are the ones who obey God’s commands. And they remain faithful to Jesus.Then I heard a voice from heaven.“ Write this,” it said.“ Blessed are the dead who die as believers in the Lord from now on.”“ Yes,” says the Holy Spirit.“ They will rest from their labor. What they have done will not be forgotten.”

The way of people who don’t want to work is blocked with thorns. But the path of honest people is a wide road.

Because of their faith they took over kingdoms. They ruled fairly. They received the blessings God had promised. They shut the mouths of lions.

Stay excited about your faith as you serve the Lord.

Abraham had faith. So he obeyed God. God called him to go to a place he would later receive as his own. So he went. He did it even though he didn’t know where he was going.Because of his faith he made his home in the land God had promised him. Abraham was like an outsider in a strange country. He lived there in tents. So did Isaac and Jacob. They received the same promise he did.Abraham was looking forward to the city that has foundations. He was waiting for the city that God planned and built.And Sarah had faith. So God made it possible for her to become a mother. She became a mother even though she was too old to have children. But Sarah believed that the God who made the promise was faithful.Abraham was past the time when he could have children. But many children came from that one man. They were as many as the stars in the sky. They were as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. No one could count them.All these people were still living by faith when they died. They didn’t receive the things God had promised. They only saw them and welcomed them from a long way off. They openly said that they were outsiders and strangers on earth.People who say things like that show that they are looking for a country of their own.What if they had been thinking of the country they had left? Then they could have returned to it.Instead, they longed for a better country. They wanted a heavenly one. So God is pleased when they call him their God. In fact, he has prepared a city for them.Abraham had faith. So when God tested him, Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice. Abraham had held on tightly to the promises. But he was about to offer his one and only son.

Your faith will be tested. You know that when this happens it will produce in you the strength to continue.

Hands that work hard will rule. But people who are lazy will be forced to work.

“ The time came when the beggar died. The angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.

Abraham was patient while he waited. Then he received what God promised him.

We remember you when we pray to our God and Father. Your work is produced by your faith. Your service is the result of your love. Your strength to continue comes from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is how the holy women of the past used to make themselves beautiful. They put their hope in God. And they followed the lead of their own husbands.Sarah was like that. She obeyed Abraham. She called him her master. Do you want to be like her? Then do what is right. And don’t give in to fear.

And Abraham is also the father of those who are circumcised and believe. So just being circumcised is not enough. Those who are circumcised must also follow the steps of our father Abraham. He had faith before he was circumcised.

A huge cloud of witnesses is all around us. So let us throw off everything that stands in our way. Let us throw off any sin that holds on to us so tightly. And let us keep on running the race marked out for us.

God will give eternal life to those who keep on doing good. They want glory, honor, and life that never ends.

Remember the story of Moses and the burning bush. Even Moses showed that the dead rise. The Lord said to him,‘ I am the God of Abraham. I am the God of Isaac. And I am the God of Jacob.’( Exodus 3:6)He is not the God of the dead. He is the God of the living. In his eyes, everyone is alive.”

We hope for what we don’t have yet. So we are patient as we wait for it.In the same way, the Holy Spirit helps us when we are weak. We don’t know what we should pray for. But the Spirit himself prays for us. He prays through groans too deep for words.

Brothers and sisters, think about the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. They are an example of how to be patient when you suffer.As you know, we think that people who don’t give up are blessed. You have heard that Job was patient. And you have seen what the Lord finally did for him. The Lord is full of tender mercy and loving concern.

People who refuse to work want things and get nothing. But the desires of people who work hard are completely satisfied.