Hebrews 10:37
Good News Translation
For, as the scripture says, "Just a little while longer, and he who is coming will come; he will not delay.

New Revised Standard Version
For yet “in a very little while, the one who is coming will come and will not delay;

Contemporary English Version
As the Scriptures say, "God is coming soon! It won't be very long.

New American Bible
“For, after just a brief moment, he who is to come shall come; he shall not delay.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay.

Isaiah 26:20 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.

Isaiah 60:22 The least shall become a thousand, and a little one a most strong nation: I the Lord will suddenly do this thing in its time.

Habakkuk 2:3,4 For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come, and it shall not be slack. . . .

Luke 18:8 I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?

James 5:7-9 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain. . . .

2 Peter 3:8 But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Revelation 22:20 He that giveth testimony of these things, saith: Surely, I come quickly: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

Context
A Call to Persevere
36For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise. 37For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay. 38But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.…
Cross References
Habakkuk 2:3
For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come, and it shall not be slack.

Matthew 11:3
Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another?

Philippians 4:5
Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.

Hebrews 10:25
Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed: but comforting one anther, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance,

Revelation 22:20
He that giveth testimony of these things, saith: Surely, I come quickly: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

Hebrews 10:36
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