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35 Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. 36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

37 “In a very little while,
    he who comes will come, and will not wait.
38 But the righteous will live by faith.
    If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”Habakkuk 2:3-4

39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

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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