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Hebrews 10:37–39
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Hebrews 10:37
37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
37For yet a litle while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tary.
Hebrews 10:38
38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
38Now the iust shall liue by faith: but if any man drawe backe, my soule shall haue no pleasure in him.
Hebrews 10:39
39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
39But wee are not of them who draw backe vnto perdition: but of them that beleeue, to the sauing of the soule.
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DEFINED WORDS
Hebrews 10:37
To stay, remain, wait, or delay.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Hebrews 10:38
In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; Having vegetable life; to continue in constantly or habitually.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Trust, belief, confidence, or reliance; especially trust in God and belief in his word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One, some, or every member or amount of an indefinite number or quantity, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To pull, drag, bring, lead, take out, attract, or make a line, according to context.
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The rear part; a position or direction behind; or a return to a former place or condition, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Delight, enjoyment, desire, will, or purpose, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Hebrews 10:39
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To pull, drag, bring, lead, take out, attract, or make a line, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The rear part; a position or direction behind; or a return to a former place or condition, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Destruction, ruin, or a state of being lost.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To accept as true on testimony or evidence; to be persuaded of; to trust or place confidence in.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Preserving, rescuing, or bringing deliverance to the life, house, soul, or people named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 37
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Open the full verse study7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
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Open the full verse study3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
4Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
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Open the full verse study8I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
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Open the full verse study20¶ Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
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Open the full verse study22A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
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Open the full verse study20He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Open the full verse study8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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Open the full verse study3And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
From verse 38
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Open the full verse study11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
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Open the full verse study4Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
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Open the full verse study17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
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Open the full verse study8I 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.
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Open the full verse study4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
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Open the full verse study20Again, 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 righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
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Open the full verse study1BEHOLD my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
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Open the full verse study21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
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Open the full verse study11The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
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Open the full verse study10Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
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Open the full verse study18Behold 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 shew judgment to the Gentiles.
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Open the full verse study6And them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor inquired for him.
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Open the full verse study19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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Open the full verse study26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
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Open the full verse study43When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
44Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
45Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
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Open the full verse study15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
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Open the full verse study24¶ 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? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
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Open the full verse study4For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
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Open the full verse study4For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
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Open the full verse study19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
From verse 39
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Open the full verse study5Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
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Open the full verse study5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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Open the full verse study12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
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Open the full verse study16If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
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Open the full verse study11It 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 it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night.
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Open the full verse study7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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Open the full verse study9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Open the full verse study1NOW faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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Open the full verse study31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
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Open the full verse study40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
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Open the full verse study26Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
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Open the full verse study18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
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Open the full verse study3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
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Open the full verse study6If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
8But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
9But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
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Open the full verse study12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
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Open the full verse study15That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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Open the full verse study32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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Open the full verse study14The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
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Open the full verse study9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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Open the full verse study9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
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Open the full verse study30And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
31And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
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Open the full verse study26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
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Open the full verse study24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
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Open the full verse study12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
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Open the full verse study11And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
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Open the full verse study8The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
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