Hebrews 10:38

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ δίκαιος ἐκ πίστεως ζήσεται: καὶ ἐὰν ὑποστείληται, οὐκ εὐδοκεῖ ἡ ψυχή μου ἐν αὐτῷ.

Transliteration

The but dikaios from pisteōs zēsetai: and if he hyposteilētai, not eudokei the psychē of me in him.

Grammar Details

• *dikaios*: nominative, masculine, singular - righteous/just
• *pisteōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of faith
• *zēsetai*: future, middle, indicative, 3rd person, singular - will live
• *hyposteilētai*: aorist, middle, subjunctive, 3rd person, singular - draws back/shrinks
• *eudokei*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person, singular - takes pleasure in
• *psychē*: nominative, feminine, singular - soul

Word Meanings

• *dikaios*: righteous person/just person
• *pisteōs*: faith/trust/belief
• *zēsetai*: will live/shall have life
• *hyposteilētai*: draws back/shrinks/withdraws
• *eudokei*: takes pleasure in/is pleased with
• *psychē*: soul/inner being/self

Referenced Verses

• Rom 1:17 : 17 For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.
• Gal 3:11 : 11 Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.
• Heb 6:4-6 : 4 As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit, 5 With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time, 6 And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.
• Heb 10:26-27 : 26 For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins, 27 But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.
• 2 Pet 2:19-22 : 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him. 20 For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it. 22 They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
• 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.
• Matt 12:43-45 : 43 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of a man, goes through dry places looking for rest, and getting it not. 44 Then he says, I will go back into my house from which I came out; and when he comes, he sees that there is no one in it, but that it has been made fair and clean. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they go in and make it their living-place: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be with this evil generation.
• Matt 13:21 : 21 But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.
• Ezek 3:20 : 20 Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
• Ezek 18:24 : 24 But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.
• Hab 2:4 : 4 As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith.
• Zeph 1:6 : 6 And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.
• Mal 1:10 : 10 If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.
• Ps 5:4 : 4 For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.
• Ps 85:8 : 8 I will give ear to the voice of the Lord; for he will say words of peace to his people and to his saints; but let them not go back to their foolish ways.
• Ps 147:11 : 11 The Lord takes pleasure in his worshippers, and in those whose hope is in his mercy.
• Ps 149:4 : 4 For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.
• Isa 42:1 : 1 See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
• Matt 12:18 : 18 See my servant, the man of my selection, my loved one in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him, and he will make my decision clear to the Gentiles.
• 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;