Hebrews 10:35-39
10:35 So do not throw away your confidence, because it
1 has great reward.
10:36 For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.
2
10:37 For
just a little longer 3 and
he who is coming will arrive and not delay.
4
10:38 But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I 5 take no pleasure in him.
6
10:39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.
7
Psalms 18:23
18:23 I was innocent before him,
and kept myself from sinning. 8
1 tn Grk “which,” but showing the reason.
2 tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.
3 sn A quotation from Isa 26:20.
4 sn A quotation from Hab 2:3.
5 tn Grk “my soul.”
6 sn A quotation from Hab 2:4.
7 tn Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”
8 tn Heb “from my sin,” that is, from making it my own in any way.