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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Cast not away therefore your confidence,.... The same word is used here, as in Hebrews 10:19 where it is translated "boldness"; and may design here, as there, an holy boldness in prayer, free from a servile and bashful spirit; and which appears in a liberty of speaking to God, and in a confidence of being heard; prayer itself should not be left...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For ye have need of patience,.... Not that they were destitute of the grace of patience; for where God is the God of all grace, he is the God of patience; and such, who are called by grace, are conformed to the image of Christ, and, among other things, are like him in this; and those who are born of the Spirit, have the fruits of the Spirit, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye have need of patience,- Or, endurance, — Heb_10:36. That, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. To hold on, to continue to do God’s will,-this is the task. To start, and to make a spurt now and then, is easy enough; but to keep on, is trying to every spiritual muscle; and only God can enable you to do so.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye have need of patience,- Our supply of that virtue is often very short; it is an article of which there is very little in the market, and all of us have need of more of it: “Ye have need of patience,”- Heb_10:36. That, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. There must first be the doing of the will of God, and then...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come,.... That the person spoken of is the Lord Jesus Christ, is evident from the prophecy in Habakkuk 2:3 here referred to, and from the character of him that is to come, Matthew 11:3 and from parallel places, James 5:7 and this is to be understood, not of his coming in the flesh, for he was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. If there be a drawing back from faith, God can have no pleasure in us; but shall we draw back? That is the question, and here is the answer: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. The drawers back-the mere professors-those who say they have been illuminated, and who have tasted, in a measure, the sweetness of religion, yet who never received Christ...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now the just shall live by faith,.... The "just" man is one not in appearance only, but in reality; not by his obedience to the law, but by the obedience of Christ; and he is evidently so by the Spirit, and by faith: and he is one, who lives soberly and righteously; and the life he lives, and shall live, at present, is, not eternal life; for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition,.... There is a drawing back which is not unto perdition; persons may be attended with much unbelief, may be very cold and indifferent to Gospel ordinances, may fall into great sins, and may greatly backslide, and yet be recovered, as David, Peter, and others: and there is a drawing back to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition;- We who have believed in Jesus, we who have sincerely committed ourselves to his care, we who have been born again of the Holy Spirit, we in whom there is the real work of grace which God has pledged to carry on, — “we are not of them who draw back unto perdition:” — Heb_10:39. But of them that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But we-What a consoling end this is to the chapter! It ought to comfort every believer in Christ who has been distressed by the earlier verses: “we”- Heb_10:39. Are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. May that be true of every one of us, for our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake! Amen.