Hebrews 10:38

A Serious Warning Against Continuing Deliberate Sin

³⁷ For, "Yet a little while, and the coming one 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 and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

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 for faith,as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."

Galatians 3:11

Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."

Habakkuk 2:4

"Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

Psalm 5:4

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

Psalm 85:8

Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

Psalm 147:11

but the LORDtakes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

Psalm 149:4

For the LORDtakes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.

Isaiah 42:1

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the LORD, who do not seek the LORD or inquire of him."

Malachi 1:10

Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.

Matthew 12:18

"Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.

Matthew 12:43-45

"When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.

Matthew 13:21

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind

Hebrews 6:4-6

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 10:26-27

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

2 Peter 2:19-22

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.