We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end in training up a child in the way he should go, in order to make your hope sure and when he is old he will not depart from it. Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life. He who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but the one who respects a command will be rewarded. Then you will not be sluggish and will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised for the rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender for each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. Do not be deceived for land that drinks in the rain often falling on it my beloved brothers, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, Jesus answered, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God. “Sir,” the woman replied, You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman a land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned. (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water? Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them even though we speak like this, beloved, we are convinced of better things in your case things that accompany salvation. For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so. To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. I know in part then I shall know fully, when the perfect comes Now even as I am fully known the partial passes away. For when I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways then we shall see face to face a dim reflection as in a mirror; Now we see who have then tasted the heavenly gift, it is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, and the powers of the coming age who have tasted the goodness of the word of God to be restored to repentance, because they have fallen away subjecting Him to open shame are crucifying the Son of God all over again themselves. Therefore, let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ this we will do, if God permits going on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God, instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time. Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see? But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words. And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God for the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Hebrews 6:1-12
1 Corinthians 13:10-12
Genesis 3:16-18
Romans 8:19-27
James 1:14-16
Proverbs 13:11-13
John 4:9-11
Proverbs 22:5-7
