Hebrews 10:39

American Standard Version (1901)

But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.

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  • Prov 14:14 : 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
  • Luke 11:26 : 26 Then goeth he, and taketh [to him] seven other spirits more evil than himself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.
  • John 17:12 : 12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
  • 1 Sam 15:11 : 11 It 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 Samuel was wroth; and he cried unto Jehovah all night.
  • Ps 44:18 : 18 Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way,
  • 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 2 Thess 2:12-14 : 12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 14 whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Heb 11:1 : 1 Now faith is assurance of [things] hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.
  • 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
  • 1 John 5:5 : 5 And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
  • 1 John 5:16 : 16 If any man see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and [God] will give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: not concerning this do I say that he should make request.
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.
  • Heb 6:6-9 : 6 and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 7 For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God: 8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned. 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak:
  • Heb 10:26 : 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,
  • 2 Thess 2:3 : 3 let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will not be], except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,
  • Prov 1:32 : 32 For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
  • John 20:31 : 31 but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in his name.
  • Acts 16:30-31 : 30 and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house.
  • Rom 10:9-9 : 9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus [as] Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved: 10 for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • John 3:15-16 : 15 that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • John 5:24 : 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.
  • John 6:40 : 40 For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.
  • Rev 17:8 : 8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, [they] whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.
  • Rev 17:11 : 11 And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goeth into perdition.

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  • Heb 10:35-38
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    35Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.

    36For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

    37For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.

    38But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

  • 9But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak:

  • 9For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 28And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

  • 11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

  • 23let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:

  • 11But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in like manner as they.

  • 9receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls.

  • 2 Cor 1:9-10
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    9yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

    10who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

  • 18So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.

  • 9And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

  • 14for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:

  • 12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  • 9pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

  • 15that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life.

  • 7(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

  • 30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

  • Heb 11:39-40
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    39And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,

    40God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • 11For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be put to shame.

  • 10For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.

  • Jude 1:23-24
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    23and some save, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

    24Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy,

  • 9Who holdeth our soul in life, And suffereth not our feet to be moved.

  • 28and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

  • 19To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.

  • 12Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:

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

  • 18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.

  • 8Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

  • 1Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

  • 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

  • 13if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.

  • 39nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • 39But the salvation of the righteous is of Jehovah; He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

  • 10and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

  • Heb 10:25-26
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    25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting [one another] ; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

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

  • 9Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.

  • 11Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back.

  • 5who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

  • 9not of works, that no man should glory.

  • 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

  • 36He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.

  • 13But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

  • 6So that with good courage we say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do unto me?