But my righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

And if indeed they had fixed their minds on that from whence they had gone forth, they might have had opportunity to go back to it again.

For this man Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was on his way back from defeating the kings, and gave him his blessing,

For we know who it is that has said, "Vengeance belongs to me! I will pay back!" and in another place, "The Lord will be the judge of his people!"

I ask this of you more especially that I may be brought back to you the sooner.

(For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever);

But of the time when he is to bring his firstborn Son back to the world he says, "And let all God's angels bow before him."

Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;

and yet have fallen back, for they crucify the Son of God on their own account, and hold him up to contempt.

Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.