Hebrews 10:39 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁹ But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ But our way is not that of those who draw back to eternal misery (perdition) and are utterly destroyed, but we are of those who believe [who cleave to and trust in and rely on God through Jesus Christ, the Messiah] and by faith preserve the soul.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.

Common English Bible

³⁹ But we aren’t the sort of people who timidly draw back and end up being destroyed. We’re the sort of people who have faith so that our whole beings are preserved.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ So then, we are not sons who are drawn away to perdition, but we are sons of faith toward the securing of the soul.

Hebrews 10:39 Cross References

1 John 5:5

And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 Peter 1:5

who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Mark 16:16

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.

1 John 5:16

If any man see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: not concerning this do I say that he should make request.

1 Samuel 15:11

It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And Samuel was wroth; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

2 Peter 3:7

but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgement and destruction of ungodly men.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen.

1 Thessalonians 5:9

For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

John 17:12

While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

John 6:40

For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Luke 11:26

Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more evil than himself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.

Psalm 44:18

Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way;

2 Thessalonians 2:3

let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

John 20:31

but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in his name.

Proverbs 14:14

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Proverbs 1:32

For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Revelation 17:11

And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goeth into perdition.

Hebrews 10:26

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,

1 Timothy 6:9

But they that desire to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.

John 5:24

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgement, but hath passed out of death into life.

Revelation 17:8

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.

Hebrews 10:38

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