Hebrews 10:38 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. ”

• Hebrews 10:38 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Now the just shall live by faith - This is a part of the quotation from Habakkuk Habakkuk 2:3-4 , which was probably commenced in the previous verse; see the passage fully explained in the notes...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (12) Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. (12) He commends the excellency of a sure faith by the effect, because it is the only way to...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  With the past in mind they are to maintain their former constancy, knowing that it will not be in vain. Their great need, as the whole epistle is meant to teach them, is the power of endurance, enabl...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  just . Greek. dikaios. App-191. The third time of quoting Habakkuk 2:4 . See Romans 1:17 . if . Greek. ean. App-118. drawback . Greek. hupostello. See Galatians 1:2 ; Galatians 1:12 ....

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  38. Now the just, etc. He means that patience is born of faith; and this is true, for we shall never be able to carry on our contests unless we are sustained by faith, even as, on the oth...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2316 THE TRUE MEANS OF PERSEVERING TO THE END Hebrews 10:38-39 . Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of t...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Now the just shall live by faith - Ὁ δε δικαιος εκ πιστεως ζησεται· But the just by faith, i.e. h...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Now the just shall live by faith:— Dr. Sykes is of opinion, that this sentence would stand better connected with the preceding words, if a full stop were not put after the word tarry, but the who...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Just. 'Aleph (') A, Vulgate, read 'MY just man.' God is the speaker-`He who is just in my si...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Sacrifice Complete in the Fulfilment of God's Will. The Open Way to God Recapitulation and close of the argument. The sacrifices of the Law were ineffective to cleanse the conscience, as shown by...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Now the just shall live by faith. — The Greek text of this clause is not perfectly certain, but it is probable that the word “my” should be added, so that the translation of the verse will be as fo...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER IX. AN ADVANCE IN THE EXHORTATION. "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us, a new and living way, th...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Beware of Backsliding Hebrews 10:26-39 The willful sin here referred to does not consist in isolated acts, but in a determined course of action, persisted in until the very desire for a better...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The writer now deals with the subject of the better worship. In this connection he again quotes from the prophecy of Jeremiah in order to emphasize the prediction of the new covenant concerning the f...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (32) But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; (33) Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and affli...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  FAITHFUL CONTINUANCE ‘The just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe t...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Now the just shall live by faith ,.... The "just" man is one not in appearance only, but in reality; not by his obedience to the law, but by the obedience of Christ; and he is evidently so by the Sp...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Ver. 38. Now the just shall live by faith ] In the want of feeling; he shall rest upon God in...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Now That is, in the mean time, as it is there added; the just , δικαιος, the righteous He that is pardoned and renewed, or justified and regenerated, and who therefore is humble, meek, sincere,...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The attentive reader cannot but notice the thoroughness with which this subject is treated in these Chapter s. It is a matter of profound importance, basic as regards any true knowledge of God, and a...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Consecrated Way; Cautions against Apostasy; Perseverance Inculcated. A. D.  62.       19 Havin...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  OLBHeb;OLBGrk; These are, as the former, the words of the Prophet Habakkuk, Habakkuk 2:4 , enforcing the former duty pressed from the gain of perseverance, and the loss by withdrawing, when Chris...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  A Call to His Readers So As To Ensure That They Will Not So Fail ( Hebrews 10:32-39 ). He now reminds them of what they had suffered for Christ's sake in the past, and the compassion that they had...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 10:32 . Illuminated. —Enlightened, by the preaching of the Christian truth. (Compare 2 Corinthians 4:6 ; 1 Peter 2:9 .) At a later period the word φωτισθέ...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Hebrews 10:26-39 Warning against Apostasy. I. Note briefly some misconceptions which prevent some readers of Scripture from receiving in a meek and docile spirit solemn admonitions of the Holy Gh...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Hebrews 10:1-2 . For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comer...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hebrews 10:1 . The law having a shadow of good things to come. St. Paul, ere his epistles were engrossed, weighed his words, adjusted his thoughts, collated them with the prophets, and knew the su...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Hebrews 10:1-58 CONCLUDING SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT WITH RESPECT TO CHRIST 'S ETERNAL PRIESTHOOD . Hebrews 10:1 For the Law, having a shadow of the go...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The need of steadfastness:

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 2:19 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 2 Peter 2:19-22 ; Ezekiel 18:24 ; Ezekiel 3:20 ; Galatians 3:11 ; Habakkuk 2:4 ; Hebrews 10:26 ; Hebrews 10:27 ; Hebrews 6:4-6 ; Isaiah 42:1 ; Malachi...

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• Hebrews 10:38 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Now the just — The justified person. Shall live — In God's favour, a spiritual and holy life. By faith — As long as he retains that gift of God. But if he draw back — If he make shipwreck of his fa...

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