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36 For you have need of endurance, in order that having done the will of God, you might receive the promise. 37 For yet in a very little while, “the One coming will come and will not delay. 38 But My righteous one will live by faith. And if he draws-back[a], My soul is not well-pleased[b] with him” [Hab 2:3-4]. 39 But we are not of [c] a drawing-back resulting-in destruction, but of a faith resulting in the preserving of the soul.

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  1. Hebrews 10:38 Or, shrinks-back, withdraws.
  2. Hebrews 10:38 Or, takes no pleasure in.
  3. Hebrews 10:39 That is, characterized by.

36 You need to persevere(A) so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.(B) 37 For,

“In just a little while,
    he who is coming(C) will come
    and will not delay.”[a](D)

38 And,

“But my righteous[b] one will live by faith.(E)
    And I take no pleasure
    in the one who shrinks back.”[c](F)

39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

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  1. Hebrews 10:37 Isaiah 26:20; Hab. 2:3
  2. Hebrews 10:38 Some early manuscripts But the righteous
  3. Hebrews 10:38 Hab. 2:4 (see Septuagint)