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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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Footnotes

  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.”

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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