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 

[10:35]  ¹ tn Grk “which,” but showing the reason.

[10:36]  ² tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.

[10:37]  ³ sn A quotation from Isa 26:20.

[10:37]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Hab 2:3.

[10:38]  ⁵ tn Grk “my soul.”

[10:38]  ⁶ sn A quotation from Hab 2:4.

[10:39]  ⁷ tn Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”

[18:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “from my sin,” that is, from making it my own in any way.