Hebrews 10:38

A Serious Warning Against Continuing Deliberate Sin

³⁷ For yet in a very little while,
He who is coming will come, and will not delay.
³⁸ But My righteous one shall live by faith;
And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.
³⁹ But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

By Faith

In Me

Just Shall Live by Faith

Live by Faith

Righteous Man

Righteous One

Take Pleasure In

O God

No

Romans 1:17

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”

Galatians 3:11

Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, “The righteous man shall live by faith.”

Habakkuk 2:4

“Behold, as for the proud one,
His soul is not right within him;
But the righteous will live by his faith.

Psalm 5:4

For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
No evil dwells with You.

Psalm 85:8

I will hear what God the Lord will say;
For He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones;
But let them not turn back to folly.

Psalm 147:11

The Lord favors those who fear Him,
Those who wait for His lovingkindness.

Psalm 149:4

For the Lord takes pleasure in His people;
He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation.

Isaiah 42:1

“Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold;
My chosen one in whom My soul delights.
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the nations.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 18:24

“But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.

Zephaniah 1:6

And those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And those who have not sought the Lord or inquired of Him.”

Malachi 1:10

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the gates, that you might not uselessly kindle fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of hosts, “nor will I accept an offering from you.

Matthew 12:18

“Behold, My Servant whom I have chosen;
My Beloved in whom My soul is well-pleased;
I will put My Spirit upon Him,
And He shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles.

Matthew 12:43-45

“Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it.

Matthew 13:21

yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men,

Hebrews 6:4-6

For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 10:26-27

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

2 Peter 2:19-22

promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.