Hebrews 6:8

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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 which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

9But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:17To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

Genesis 5:29He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which the LORD has cursed.”

Deuteronomy 29:28The LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

Job 31:40let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

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

Jeremiah 17:6For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

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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