35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, in order that after you[a] have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. 37 For yet

“a very, very little while,
    and the one who is coming will come and will not delay.
38 But my righteous one will live by faith,
    and if he shrinks back, my soul is not well pleased with him.”[b]

39 But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of our souls.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:36 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the temporal participle (“have done”)
  2. Hebrews 10:38 A quotation from Hab 2:3–4

35 Therefore oun do not throw away apoballō · ho your hymeis boldness parrēsia, which hostis has echō great megas reward misthapodosia.

36 You have echō need chreia of endurance hypomonē, then gar, so that hina after you have done poieō the ho will thelēma of ho God theos, you may receive komizō what ho was promised epangelia. 37 For gar just eti a little mikros longer hosos hosos, the ho one who is coming erchomai will arrive hēkō; · kai he will not ou delay chronizō. 38 · ho But de my egō righteous dikaios one will live zaō by ek faithfulness pistis. But kai should ean he shrink back hypostellō, my egō soul psychē will take no ou pleasure eudokeō · ho in en him autos.” 39 But de we hēmeis are eimi not ou of those who shrink back hypostolē and are eis lost apōleia, but alla are of those who are faithful pistis and so eis preserve peripoiēsis their soul psychē.

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