Hebrews 10:39

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐκ ἐσμὲν ὑποστολῆς εἰς ἀπώλειαν· ἀλλὰ πίστεως εἰς περιποίησιν ψυχῆς.

Transliteration

We but not esmen hypostolēs to apōleian; but of pisteōs to peripoiēsin psychēs.

Grammar Details

• *esmen*: present, active, indicative, 1st person, plural - we are
• *hypostolēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of shrinking back/drawing back
• *apōleian*: accusative, feminine, singular - destruction/perdition
• *pisteōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of faith
• *peripoiēsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - preservation/saving
• *psychēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of soul

Word Meanings

• *hypostolēs*: shrinking back/drawing back/withdrawal
• *apōleian*: destruction/ruin/perdition
• *peripoiēsin*: preservation/saving/gaining
• *psychēs*: soul/life

Referenced Verses

• 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, {G1722} {G2889} I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but {G3361} 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 {G5087} 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 {G138} 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 {G3361} 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 {G1565} 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 {G2532} 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, {G5547} 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 {G2064} cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.
• John 6:40 : 40 For this is the will of my Father, {G3992} {G3165} 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.