Hebrews 10:36

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

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WEBBE

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

BSB

You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.

KJV

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

ASV

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

BBE

For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

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ὑπομονῆς hupomonēs Of endurance G5281 γὰρ gar for G1063 ἔχετε echete You have G2192 χρείαν chreian need G5532 ἵνα ina so that G2443 τὸ to the G3588 θέλημα thelēma will G2307 τοῦ tou (the) G3588 θεοῦ theou of God G2316 ποιήσαντες poiēsantes having done G4160 κομίσησθε komisēsthe you may receive G2865 τὴν tēn the G3588 ἐπαγγελίαν epangelian promise G1860

The early church

"For ye have need of patience," not of any addition to your labors, that ye may continue in the same state, that ye may not cast away what has been put into your hands. Ye need nothing else, but so to stand as ye have stood, that when ye come to the end, ye may receive the promise. "For" (he says) "ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." Ye have need of one thing only, to bear with the delay; not that ye should fight again. Ye are at the very crown (he means); ye have borne all the combats of bonds, of afflictions; your goods have been spoiled. What then? Henceforward ye are standing to be crowned: endure this only, the delay of the crown. O the greatness of the consolation! It is as if one should speak to an athlete who had overthrown all, and had no antagonist, and then was to be crowned, and yet endured not that time, during which the president of the games comes, and places the crown upon him; and he impatient, should wish to go out, and escape as though he could not bear the thirst and the heat.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Hebrews

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 32–39

Many and various afflictions united against the early Christians, and they had a great conflict. The Christian spirit is not a selfish spirit; it puts us upon pitying others, visiting them, helping them, and pleading for them. All things here are but shadows. The happiness of the saints in heaven will last for ever; enemies can never take it away as earthly goods. This will make rich amends for all we may lose and suffer here. The greatest part of the saints' happiness, as yet, is in promise. It is a trial of the patience of Christians, to be content to live after their work is done, and to stay for their reward till God's time to give it is come. He will soon come to them at death, to end all their sufferings, and to give them a crown of life. The Christian's present conflict may be sharp, but will be soon over. God never is pleased with the formal profession and outward duties and services of such as do not persevere; but he beholds them with great displeasure. And those who have been kept faithful in great trails for the time past, have reason to hope for the same grace to help them still to live by faith, till they receive the end of their faith and patience, even the salvation of their souls. Living by faith, and dying in faith, our souls are safe for ever.

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BlessingPerseveranceMeeknessPatienceReward

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.