Hebrews 10:39

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to 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 believeth not shall be damned.
• Luke 11:26 : 26 Then 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.
• John 17:12 : 12 While 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.
• 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 it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
• Ps 44:18 : 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our ste declined from thy way;
• 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
• 2 Thess 2:12-14 : 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13 But 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: 14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Heb 11:1 : 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
• 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 But 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.
• 1 John 5:5 : 5 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 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.
• 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But 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.
• Heb 6:6-9 : 6 If 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. 7 For 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: 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; 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 sacrifice for sins,
• 2 Thess 2:3 : 3 Let 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;
• Prov 1:32 : 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the osperity of fools shall destroy them.
• John 20:31 : 31 But 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.
• 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 Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
• Rom 10:9-9 : 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him fm 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 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.
• John 5:24 : 24 Verily, 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.
• John 6:40 : 40 And 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.
• Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These 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; 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
• Rev 17:8 : 8 The 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 we 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.
• Rev 17:11 : 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.