32 Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.(A) 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way.(B) 34 For you sympathized with the prisoners[a] and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.[b](C) 35 So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.(D) 36 For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.(E)

37 For yet in a very little while,
the Coming One will come and not delay.
38 But my righteous one[c] will live by faith;
and if he draws back,
I have no pleasure[d] in him.[e](F)

39 But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and are saved.

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  1. 10:34 Other mss read sympathized with my imprisonment
  2. 10:34 Other mss add in heaven
  3. 10:38 Other mss read the righteous one
  4. 10:38 Lit my soul has no pleasure
  5. 10:37–38 Is 26:20 LXX; Hab 2:3–4

32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light,(A) when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.(B) 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution;(C) at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.(D) 34 You suffered along with those in prison(E) and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.(F) 35 So do not throw away your confidence;(G) it will be richly rewarded.

36 You need to persevere(H) so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.(I) 37 For,

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

38 And,

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

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)