Hebrews 10:22-39 ▼

22 let us draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

24 Let us consider how to motivate one another to love and good works,

25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but encouraging each another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

28 Anyone who disregards the Law of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

30 For we know him who said, |Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay.| Again, |The Lord will judge his people.|

31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

33 partly, being exposed to insults and abuse in public, and sometimes you came to share with others who were treated in the same way.

34 For you both had compassion on them that were in chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an enduring one.

35 Therefore do not throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

36 For you need patient endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

37 |For in just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.

38 But the righteous will live by faith, and if he holds back, my soul has no pleasure in him.|

39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.