Hebrews 10:38

A Serious Warning Against Continuing Deliberate Sin

³⁷ For yet "a very, very little [while], [and] the one who is coming will come and will not delay. ³⁸ But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul is not well pleased with him." ³⁹ But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of [our] 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 the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it is written, "But the one who is righteous by faith will live."

Galatians 3:11

Now [it is] clear that no one is justified in the sight of God by the law, because "the one who is righteous will live by faith."

Habakkuk 2:4

Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright. But the righteous shall live by his faithfulness.

Psalm 5:4

For you [are] not a God [who] desires wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with you.

Psalm 85:8

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, because he will speak peace to his people, even his faithful [ones], but let them not return to folly.

Psalm 147:11

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, the ones who hope for his loyal love.

Psalm 149:4

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people; he glorifies [the] afflicted with salvation.

Isaiah 42:1

Look! [here is] my servant; I hold him, my chosen one, [in whom] my soul delights. I have {put} my spirit on him; he will bring justice forth to the nations.

Ezekiel 3:20

And {when the righteous turns from his righteousness} and does injustice, and I place a stumbling block {before him}, he will die, for you did not warn him. Because of his sin he will die, and his righteousness that he did will not be remembered, and his blood I shall seek from your hand.

Ezekiel 18:24

And {when the righteous turns} from his righteousness, so that he does injustice, and does all of the detestable things that the wicked do, then will he live [because of] all of his righteousness that he did? [Those things] will not be remembered because of his infidelity that he displayed, and because of his {sin that he committed}. Through them he shall die.

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turned back from {following} Yahweh, and who did not seek Yahweh, and did not inquire of him."

Malachi 1:10

"Who also among you will shut [the temple] doors [so that] you will not kindle fire in vain [on] my altar? I take no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of hosts, "and {I will not accept} an offering from your hand.

Matthew 12:18

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

Matthew 12:43-45

"Now whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find [it].

Matthew 13:21

But he does not have a root in himself, but {lasts only a little while}, and [when] affliction or persecution happens because of the word, immediately he falls away.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and who persecuted us, and [who are] not pleasing to God and [are] opposed to all people,

Hebrews 6:4-6

For [it is] impossible [concerning] those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and become sharers of the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 10:26-27

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

2 Peter 2:19-22

promising them freedom [although they] themselves are slaves of depravity. For to whatever someone succumbs, by this he is also 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 remained with us. But [they went out], in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.