Hebrews 6:8

But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and is near to a curse. Its end is in burning.

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But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

In Context

7For the land that drinks in the rain that often comes on it, and that gives birth to the plants useful to those for whom the land was worked—this is the land that receives a blessing from God.

9But we are convinced about better things concerning you, beloved ones, things that concern salvation, even though we speak like this.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:17To Adam he said, 1 “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, 1 and have eaten from the tree, concerning which I commanded you, 1 saying, 'You may not eat from it,' 1 cursed is the ground because of you; 1 through painful work you will eat from it all the days of your life. 1

Genesis 5:29He called his name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the painful labor of our hands, which we must do because of the ground that Yahweh has cursed.”

Deuteronomy 29:28Yahweh has uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great fury, and has thrown them into another land, as today.'

Job 31:40then let thorns grow instead of wheat 1 and weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are finished.

Isaiah 5:1Let me sing for my well beloved, a song of my beloved about his vineyard. 1 My well beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 1

Jeremiah 17:6For he will be like a small bush in the Arabah and will not see anything good coming. 1 He will stay in the stony places in the wilderness, barren land without inhabitants. 1

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 6:2-9

Advancement in Holiness; First Principles. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this will we do, if God permit. 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the… Read the whole commentary →

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