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35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which earns great reward. 36 For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: 37 For yet a very little while, and he who is to come will come, and will not be long. 38 But the just shall live by faith. And if a person withdraws himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not of those who withdraw ourselves unto damnation, but are of faith to the winning of the soul.

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35 Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompense of reward.

36 For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

37 For yet a very [a]little while, and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry.

38 (A)[b]Now the just shall live by faith: but if any withdraw himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not they which withdraw ourselves unto perdition, but follow faith unto the conservation of the soul.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:37 He will come within this very little while.
  2. Hebrews 10:38 He commendeth the excellency of a sure faith by the effect, because it is the only way to life, which sentence he setteth forth and amplifieth by setting the contrary against it.

35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

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35 So do not throw away your confidence;(A) it will be richly rewarded.

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

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

38 And,

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

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)