Hebrews 10:39
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
- KJV
- But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
- WEB
- But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
- ASV
- But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.
- DARBY
- But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving [the] soul.
- BLB
- But we are not of [those] shrinking back to destruction, but of faith to the preserving [of] the soul.
- ÅB
- Men vi er ikke av dem som unddrager seg til fortapelse, vi er av dem som tror til sjelens frelse.
- OTB
- Men vi er ikke blant dem som trekker seg tilbake og blir ødelagt, men blant dem som har tro og bevarer sine sjeler.
- B1930
- Men vi er ikke av dem som unddrager sig til fortapelse, vi er av dem som tror til sjelens frelse.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 John 5:5
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Read in context1 Peter 1:5
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Read in contextMark 16:16
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 2:12–14
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Read in context1 Samuel 15:11
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
Read in context2 Peter 3:7
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Read in context1 John 5:16
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Read in contextHebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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