37 (A)For yet in a very little while,
(B)He who is coming will come, and will not delay.
38 (C)But My righteous one will live by faith;
And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.

39 But [a]we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith for the safekeeping of the soul.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:39 Lit we are not of shrinking back...but of faith

37 For,

“In just a little while,
    he who is coming(A) will come
    and will not delay.”[a](B)

38 And,

“But my righteous[b] one will live by faith.(C)
    And I take no pleasure
    in the one who shrinks back.”[c](D)

39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:37 Isaiah 26:20; Hab. 2:3
  2. Hebrews 10:38 Some early manuscripts But the righteous
  3. Hebrews 10:38 Hab. 2:4 (see Septuagint)