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Hebrews 10:35

What does Hebrews 10:35 mean?

A plain-English look at Hebrews 10:35 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

What Hebrews 10:35 means

They are exhorted not to cast away their boldness, since it carries a great reward. Confidence here means courageous trust in Christ that expresses itself in public allegiance and steadfast obedience. Throwing it away would squander both present peace and future recompense. The writer ties assurance to perseverance: hold fast your confidence, for God honors it. The appeal is both pastoral and eschatological—keep your nerve, because God sees and will reward those who cling to Christ to the end. Boldness is precious; it is the fruit of Christ’s finished work and the path to promised joy.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.

Context

After recalling the readers’ past endurance (vv. 32–34), verse 35 draws a conclusion: do not abandon your bold confidence, because it brings great reward. This turn looks forward rather than backward. Verse 36 will add the necessity of patience to obtain the promise. Verses 37–38 will anchor this call in the certainty of the coming one and the principle that the righteous live by faith, not by shrinking back. Verse 39 will close with a corporate affirmation of persevering faith.

v.34For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.

v.35This passage

v.36For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:58

    Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

  • Hebrews 11:26

    accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.

  • Galatians 6:8

    For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

  • Hebrews 2:2

    For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

  • Hebrews 3:6

    but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.

  • Matthew 5:12

    Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.

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