Hebrews 6:15

King James Version

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Abraham waited patiently for this to happen, and later he received what God promised.

Revised Standard Version
And thus Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And so after that he had taryed a longe tyme he enioyed the promes.

Hebrew Names Version
Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

New American Standard Bible
And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.

New Century Version
Abraham waited patiently for this to happen, and he received what God promised.

Update Bible Version
And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Webster's Bible Translation
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

English Standard Version
And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.

World English Bible
Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Weymouth's New Testament
And so, as the result of patient waiting, our forefather obtained what God had promised.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and so he long abidinge hadde the biheeste.

English Revised Version
And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Berean Standard Bible
And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.

Contemporary English Version
Then after Abraham had been very patient, he was given what God had promised.

Amplified Bible
And so, having patiently waited, he realized the promise [in the miraculous birth of Isaac, as a pledge of what was to come from God].

American Standard Version
And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Bible in Basic English
And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

Complete Jewish Bible
and so, after waiting patiently, Avraham saw the promise fulfilled.

Darby Translation
and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.

International Standard Version
And so he obtained the promise, because he patiently waited for it.

Etheridge Translation
And so he waited patiently, and obtained the promise.

Murdock Translation
And so he was patient, and obtained the promise.

King James Version (1611)
And so after he had patiently indured, he obtained the promise.

New Living Translation
Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.

New Life Bible
Abraham was willing to wait and God gave to him what He had promised.

New Revised Standard
And thus Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And so after that he had taried patiently, he enioyed the promes.

George Lamsa Translation
And so he was patient, and obtained the promise.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, thus, being patient, he attained unto the promise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And so patiently enduring he obtained the promise.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so after that he had taryed paciently, he enioyed the promise.

Good News Translation
Abraham was patient, and so he received what God had promised.

Christian Standard Bible®
And so, after waiting patiently, Abraham obtained the promise.

Lexham English Bible
And so, by persevering, he obtained the promise.

Literal Translation
And so, being long-suffering, he obtained the promise.

Young's Literal Translation
and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And so he abode pacietly, and optayned the promes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and after he had patiently waited, he obtained what was promised.

New English Translation
And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.

New King James Version
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Simplified Cowboy Version
All Abe had to do was wait on God and then get what he'd promised.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.

Legacy Standard Bible
And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.

Contextual Overview

⁹ But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. ¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. ¹¹ And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: ¹² That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. ¹³ For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, ¹⁴ Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. ¹⁵ And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. ¹⁶ For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. ¹⁷ Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: ¹⁸ That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Bible Verse Review
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Hebrews 6:12, Genesis 12:2, Genesis 12:3, Genesis 15:2-6, Genesis 17:16, Genesis 17:17, Genesis 21:2-7, Exodus 1:7, Habakkuk 2:2, Habakkuk 2:3, Romans 4:17-25

Reciprocal: Luke 21:19 - General Romans 2:7 - patient Romans 8:25 - with patience Romans 12:12 - patient 1 Thessalonians 1:3 - and patience 2 Thessalonians 1:4 - your patience 2 Timothy 2:3 - endure Hebrews 10:36 - ye have Hebrews 11:27 - endured Hebrews 12:1 - with patience James 1:12 - the man James 5:7 - Be patient 2 Peter 1:6 - patience Revelation 2:3 - hast patience

Cross-References

Genesis 7:20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And so, after he had patiently endured,.... He waited long for a son, from whom the Messiah was to spring, after he had had the promise of one; and he endured many afflictions with patience, in his journeys from place to place, throughout his life to the end:

he obtained the promise; he was greatly blessed in temporal things; he lived to see the son of the promise, and his sons; he saw the day of Christ by faith, and now inherits the heavenly glory, which is the thing chiefly designed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And so, after he had patiently endured - After he had waited for a long time. He did not faint or grow weary, but he persevered in a confident expectation of the fulfillment of what God had so solemnly promised.

He obtained the promise - Evidently the promise referred to in the oath - that he would have a numerous posterity. The apostle intimates that he had waited for that a long time; that his faith did not waver, and that in due season the object of his wishes was granted. To see the force of this, we are to remember:

(1)That when he was called by God from Haran, and when the promise of a numerous posterity was made to him, he was seventy-five years old; Genesis 12:1-5.

1. Twenty-four years elapsed after this, during which he was a sojourner in a strange land, before the manner in which this promise would be fulfilled was made known to him; Genesis 17:1-16.
2. It was only when he was an hundred years old, and when he had persevered in the belief of the truth of the promise against all the natural improbabilities of its accomplishment, that he received the pledge of its fulfillment in the birth of his son Isaac; Genesis 21:1-5.
3. The birth of that son was a pledge that the other blessings implied in the promise would be granted, and in that pledge Abraham may be said to have “received the promise.”

He did not actually see the numerous posterity of which he was to be the honored ancestor, nor the Messiah who was to descend from him, nor the happy influences which would result to mankind from the fulfillment of the promise. But he saw the certainty that all this would occur; he saw by faith the Messiah in the distance John 8:56, and the numerous blessings which would result from his coming. It was a remarkable instance of faith, and one well suited to the purpose of the apostle. It would furnish ample encouragement to the Christians to whom he wrote, to persevere in their course, and to avoid the dangers of apostasy. If Abraham persevered when “appearances” were so much against the fulfillment of what had been promised, then Christians should persevere under the clearer light and with the more distinct promises of the gospel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. He obtained the promise. — Isaac was supernaturally born; and in his birth God began to fulfil the promise: while he lived, he saw a provision made for the multiplication of his seed; and, having continued steadfast in the faith, he received the end of all the promises in the enjoyment of an eternal glory. And the inference from this is: If we believe and prove faithful unto death, we shall also inherit the promises; and this is what is implied in the apostle's exhortation, Hebrews 6:12: Be not slothful, but followers of them, &c.