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

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Footnotes

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