35 Therefore, do not throw away your (A)confidence, which has a great (B)reward. 36 For you have need of (C)endurance, so that when you have (D)done the will of God, you may (E)receive [a]what was promised.

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

39 But [b]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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  1. Hebrews 10:36 Lit the promise
  2. Hebrews 10:39 Lit we are not of shrinking back...but of faith

35 So do not throw away your confidence, because it[a] has great reward. 36 For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.[b] 37 For just a little longer[c] and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.[d] 38 But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I[e] take no pleasure in him.[f] 39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.[g]

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  1. Hebrews 10:35 tn Grk “which,” but showing the reason.
  2. Hebrews 10:36 tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.
  3. Hebrews 10:37 sn A quotation from Isa 26:20.
  4. Hebrews 10:37 sn A quotation from Hab 2:3.
  5. Hebrews 10:38 tn Grk “my soul.”
  6. Hebrews 10:38 sn A quotation from Hab 2:4.
  7. Hebrews 10:39 tn Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”