Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Hebrews 10:39

“But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”

Hebrews 10:39 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Hebrews 10:39, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Hebrews 10. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 John 5:5Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
  • 1 Peter 1:5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • Mark 16:16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
  • 1 Samuel 15:11It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all nig…
  • 2 Peter 3:7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
  • 1 John 5:16If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall…
  • Luke 11:26Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
  • John 20:31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • Hebrews 11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
  • Psalms 44:18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
  • John 6:40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
  • Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

More to meet God in Hebrews

Hebrews 11:1Hebrews 11:6Hebrews 13:8Hebrews 4:16Hebrews 12:1Hebrews 13:5Hebrews 10:23Hebrews 12:2Hebrews 9:14Hebrews 10:22Hebrews 6:2Hebrews 1:2Hebrews 1:14Hebrews 3:1

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.