Hebrews 10:38 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, In those that hope in his mercy.

Psalm 149:4

For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: He will beautify the meek with salvation.

Psalm 5:4

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.

Psalm 85:8

I will hear what God the LORD will speak: For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: But let them not turn again to folly.

Isaiah 42:1

Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Ezekiel 33:13

When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he hath committed, therein shall he die.

Habakkuk 2:4

Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

Zephaniah 1:6

and them that are turned back from following the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired after him.

Malachi 1:10

Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

Matthew 12:18

Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; My beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit upon him, And he shall declare judgement to the Gentiles.

Matthew 13:21

yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth.

Romans 1:17

For therein is revealed a righteousness of God by faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.

Galatians 3:11

Now that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drave out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest how that they all are not of us.