Hebrews 6:7 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 6:7

For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God:

KJV

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS, ALTERNATE SERIES 73 (PSALM 96) (420)

Would you like to know in what way the faithful are compared with clouds in holy writ? Isaiah says, "I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon them." Moses was speaking as if he were a cloud when he said, "May my teaching drop as the rain." The letters of the apostles are spiritual rain for us. As a matter of fact, what does Paul say in his letter to the Hebrews?: "For land which has drunk the rain that often falls upon it," and again, "I planted, Apollos watered."

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For the earth - The design of the apostle by this comparison is apparent. It is to show the consequences of not making a proper use of all the privileges which Christians have, and the effect which would follow should those privileges fail to be improved. He says, it is like the earth. If that absorbs the rain, and produces an abundant harvest, it receives the divine blessing. If not, it is cursed, or is worthless. The design is to show that “if” Christians should become like the barren earth they would be cast away and lost.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Such as the master of the soil wishes. The opposite of "rejected," Heb 6:8. by whom--rather as Greek, "for (that is, on account of) whom," namely, the lords of the soil; not the laborers, as English Version, namely, God and His Christ (1Co 3:9).

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Γῆ	Gē	Land	G1093 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
πιοῦσα	piousa	having drunk in	G4095 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἐπ᾽	ep᾽	upon	G1909 →
αὐτῆς	autēs	it	G846 →
ἐρχόμενον	erchomenon	coming	G2064 →
πολλάκις	pollakis	often	G4178 →
ὑετὸν	hu'eton	rain	G5205 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τίκτουσα	tiktousa	producing	G5088 →
βοτάνην	botanēn	vegetation	G1008 →
εὔθετον	eutheton	useful	G2111 →
ἐκείνοις	ekeinois	for those	G1565 →
δι᾽	di᾽	for the sake of	G1223 →
οὓς	hous	whom	G3739 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
γεωργεῖται,	geōrgeitai	it is tilled,	G1090 →
μεταλαμβάνει	metalambanei	partakes	G3335 →
εὐλογίας	eulogias	of blessing	G2129 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ·	theou	God;	G2316 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
leads to
- Joel 2:28
  And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
- Acts 2:17
  ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
- Isaiah 59:21
  “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your…
- John 7:37–39
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Proverbs 1:23
  If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
Through
Hosea 10:12
Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
leads to
- Jeremiah 4:3–4
  For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
- James 3:18
  Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.
- Isaiah 45:8
  Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

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04Related verses

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06About Hebrews

Where the connections lead

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Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Hebrews