35 So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.(A) 36 For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.(B)

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. 10:38 Other mss read the righteous one
  2. 10:38 Lit my soul has no pleasure
  3. 10:37–38 Is 26:20 LXX; Hab 2:3–4

35 Do not, therefore, abandon that boldness of yours; it brings a great reward. 36 For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what was promised.(A) 37 For yet

“in a very little while,
    the one who is coming will come and will not delay,(B)
38 but my righteous one will live by faith.
    My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”(C)

39 But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls.(D)

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