Hebrews 10:38
Good News Translation
My righteous people, however, will believe and live; but if any of them turns back, I will not be pleased with them."

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

Contemporary English Version
The people God accepts will live because of their faith. But he isn't pleased with anyone who turns back."

New American Bible
But my just one shall live by faith, and if he draws back I take no pleasure in him.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

the just.

Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, he that is unbelieving, his soul shall not be right in himself: but the just shall live in his faith.

Romans 1:17 For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.

Galatians 3:11 But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest: because the just man liveth by faith.

but.

Hebrews 10:26,27 For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins: . . .

Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, . . .

Psalm 85:8 I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart.

Ezekiel 3:20 Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand.

Ezekiel 18:24 But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.

Zephaniah 1:6 And them that turn away from following after the Lord, and that have not sought the Lord, nor searched after him.

Matthew 12:43-45 And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none. . . .

Matthew 13:21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalized.

2 Peter 2:19-22 Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave. . . .

1 John 2:19 They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they may be manifest, that they are not all of us.

my.

Psalm 5:4 In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.

Psalm 147:11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy.

Psalm 149:4 For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.

Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

Malachi 1:10 Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand.

Matthew 12:18 Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul hath been well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

1 Thessalonians 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;

Context
A Call to Persevere
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. 39But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 33:13
Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall surely live, and he, trusting in his justice, commit iniquity: all his justices shall be forgotten, and his iniquity, which he hath committed, in the same shall he die.

Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, he that is unbelieving, his soul shall not be right in himself: but the just shall live in his faith.

Romans 1:17
For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.

Galatians 3:11
But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest: because the just man liveth by faith.

Hebrews 10:39
But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

James 5:6
You have condemned and put to death the Just One: and he resisted you not.

Hebrews 10:37
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