Hebrews 10:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁸ but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ Now the just shall live by faith: But if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ But the just shall live by faith [My righteous servant shall live by his conviction respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, and holy fervor born of faith and conjoined with it]; and if he draws back and shrinks in fear, My soul has no delight or pleasure in him. [Hab. 2:3, 4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

Common English Bible

³⁸ “but my righteous one will live by faith, ” “and my whole being won’t be pleased with anyone who shrinks back.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ For my just man lives by faith. But if he were to draw himself back, he would not please my soul."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ But my just man liveth by faith; but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.

Hebrews 10:38 Cross References

2 Samuel 22:22

For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Psalm 147:11

but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

Psalm 149:4

For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with victory.

Psalm 5:4

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil will not sojourn with you.

Psalm 85:8

Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts.

Isaiah 42:1

Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turn away from their righteousness and commit iniquity and do the same abominable things that the wicked do, shall they live? None of the righteous deeds that they have done shall be remembered, for the treachery of which they are guilty and the sin they have committed, they shall die.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, if the righteous turn from their righteousness and commit iniquity and I lay a stumbling block before them, they shall die; because you have not warned them, they shall die for their sin, and their righteous deeds that they have done shall not be remembered, but their blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:13

Though I say to the righteous that they shall surely live, yet if they trust in their righteousness and commit iniquity, none of their righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in the iniquity that they have committed they shall die.

Habakkuk 2:4

Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faithfulness.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.

Malachi 1:10

Oh, that someone among you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hands.

Matthew 12:18

“Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the gentiles.

Matthew 13:21

yet such a person has no root but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.

Romans 1:17

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith, as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”

Galatians 3:11

Now it is evident that no one is reckoned as righteous before God by the law, for “the one who is righteous will live by faith.”

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and drove us out; they displease God and oppose everyone

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us, for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.