For we know the one who said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

but my righteous one will live by faith, and if he turns back, my soul will take no pleasure in him."

Now, we do not belong to those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

If they had been thinking about what they had left behind, they would have had an opportunity to go back.

Abraham was certain that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did get Isaac back in this way.

Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

to a trumpet's blast, or to a voice that made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them.

I especially ask you to do this so that I may be brought back to you sooner.

Now may the God of peace, who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the sheep,