Hebrews 6:14

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply you.

King James Version (1611)
Saying, Surely, blessing I will blesse thee, and multiplying I wil multiply thee.

King James Version
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

English Standard Version
saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."

New American Standard Bible
saying, "INDEED I WILL GREATLY BLESS YOU AND I WILL GREATLY MULTIPLY YOU."

New Century Version
saying, "I will surely bless you and give you many descendants."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
saying, "I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU."

Legacy Standard Bible
saying, "I will greatly bless you and I will greatly multiply you."

Berean Standard Bible
saying, "I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants."

Contemporary English Version
"I, the Lord, will bless you with many descendants!"

Complete Jewish Bible
and said, "I will certainly bless you, and I will certainly give you many descendants";

Darby Translation
saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;

Easy-to-Read Version
He said, "I will surely bless you. I will give you many descendants."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Saying, Surely I wil aboundantly blesse thee and multiplie thee marueilously.

George Lamsa Translation
Saying, Blessing, I will bless you, and multiplying, I will multiply you.

Good News Translation
He said, "I promise you that I will bless you and give you many descendants."

Lexham English Bible
saying, "Surely I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply you."

Literal Translation
saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." Gen. 22:16, 17

Amplified Bible
saying, "I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU."

American Standard Version
saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

Bible in Basic English
Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great.

Hebrew Names Version
saying, "Most surely I will bless you, and I will surely multiply you."

International Standard Version
He said, "I will certainly bless you and give you many descendants."Genesis 22:17">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
and said, Blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

Murdock Translation
and said: Blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saying: Surely, blessyng I wyll blesse thee, and multipliyng, multiplie thee.

English Revised Version
saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

World English Bible
saying, "Most surely I will bless you, and I will surely multiply you."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
he swore by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

Weymouth's New Testament
saying, "Assuredly I will bless you and bless you, I will increase you and increase you."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, Y blessinge schal blesse thee, and Y multipliynge schal multiplie thee;

Update Bible Version
saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

New English Translation
saying, " Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly ."

New King James Version
saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." Genesis 22:17">[fn]

New Living Translation
"I will certainly bless you, and I will multiply your descendants beyond number."

New Life Bible
He said, "I will make you happy in so many ways. For sure, I will give you many children."

New Revised Standard
saying, "I will surely bless you and multiply you."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
saying - Truly, if blessing I will bless thee, and, multiplying, I will multiply thee;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee and multiplying I shall multiply thee.

Revised Standard Version
saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
sayinge: Surely I will blesse the and multiply the in dede.

Young's Literal Translation
saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde: Surely I wil blesse the and multiplye ye in dede.

Mace New Testament (1729)
"surely I will heap blessings upon thee, and will give thee a numerous posterity."

Simplified Cowboy Version
saying, "I'm going to bless you and grow your herd bigger than any number."

Contextual Overview

⁹I'm sure that won't happen to you, friends. I have better things in mind for you—salvation things! God doesn't miss anything. He knows perfectly well all the love you've shown him by helping needy Christians, and that you keep at it. And now I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a full-bodied hope, and keep at it till the finish. Don't drag your feet. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. ¹³When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line. He said, "I promise that I'll bless you with everything I have—bless and bless and bless!" Abraham stuck it out and got everything that had been promised to him. When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they'll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It's an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us, in the order of Melchizedek. ¹⁹ So come on, let's leave the preschool fingerpainting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on "salvation by self-help" and turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal judgment. God helping us, we'll stay true to all that. But there's so much more. Let's get on with it! Once people have seen the light, gotten a taste of heaven and been part of the work of the Holy Spirit, once they've personally experienced the sheer goodness of God's Word and the powers breaking in on us—if then they turn their backs on it, washing their hands of the whole thing, well, they can't start over as if nothing happened. That's impossible. Why, they've re-crucified Jesus! They've repudiated him in public! Parched ground that soaks up the rain and then produces an abundance of carrots and corn for its gardener gets God's "Well done!" But if it produces weeds and thistles, it's more likely to get cussed out. Fields like that are burned, not harvested. I'm sure that won't happen to you, friends. I have better things in mind for you—salvation things! God doesn't miss anything. He knows perfectly well all the love you've shown him by helping needy Christians, and that you keep at it. And now I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a full-bodied hope, and keep at it till the finish. Don't drag your feet. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line. He said, "I promise that I'll bless you with everything I have—bless and bless and bless!" Abraham stuck it out and got everything that had been promised to him. When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they'll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It's an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us, in the order of Melchizedek. ²⁰ So come on, let's leave the preschool fingerpainting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on "salvation by self-help" and turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal judgment. God helping us, we'll stay true to all that. But there's so much more. Let's get on with it! Once people have seen the light, gotten a taste of heaven and been part of the work of the Holy Spirit, once they've personally experienced the sheer goodness of God's Word and the powers breaking in on us—if then they turn their backs on it, washing their hands of the whole thing, well, they can't start over as if nothing happened. That's impossible. Why, they've re-crucified Jesus! They've repudiated him in public! Parched ground that soaks up the rain and then produces an abundance of carrots and corn for its gardener gets God's "Well done!" But if it produces weeds and thistles, it's more likely to get cussed out. Fields like that are burned, not harvested. I'm sure that won't happen to you, friends. I have better things in mind for you—salvation things! God doesn't miss anything. He knows perfectly well all the love you've shown him by helping needy Christians, and that you keep at it. And now I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a full-bodied hope, and keep at it till the finish. Don't drag your feet. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line. He said, "I promise that I'll bless you with everything I have—bless and bless and bless!" Abraham stuck it out and got everything that had been promised to him. When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they'll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It's an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us, in the order of Melchizedek.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

multiplying: Genesis 17:2, Genesis 48:4, Exodus 32:13, Deuteronomy 1:10, Nehemiah 9:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:16 - General Psalms 3:8 - thy blessing Isaiah 52:6 - I am he Ezekiel 37:26 - multiply Hebrews 10:14 - them

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saying, surely blessing I will bless thee,.... Which is expressive of the certainty of the blessings; the reality and substantiality of them; the abundance of them, and the continuance of the same: and of this nature are all spiritual blessings; as to be chosen of God; to have God to be a covenant God and Father; to be justified, pardoned, adopted, and sanctified, and so have a right and title to eternal happiness:

and multiplying I will multiply thee; meaning both in his natural and spiritual seed, which has had its accomplishment.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee - That is, I will certainly bless thee. The phrase is a Hebrew mode of expression, to denote emphasis or certainty - indicated by the repetition of a word; compare Genesis 14:23; Exodus 8:10; Joel 3:14; Judges 5:30; Judges 15:16.

Multiplying I will multiply thee - I will greatly increase thee - I will grant thee an exceedingly numerous posterity.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee — I will continue to bless thee.

Multiplying I will multiply thee. — I will continue to increase thy posterity. In the most literal manner God continues to fulfil this promise; genuine Christians are Abraham's seed, and God is increasing their number daily. See the notes on Genesis 22:12-18; and Genesis 23:1.