Hebrews 10:23

Amplified Bible

Let us seize and hold tightly the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is reliable and trustworthy and faithful [to His word];

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, since he who promised is faithful.

King James Version (1611)
Let vs hold fast the profession of our faith without wauering (for he is faithfull that promised)

King James Version
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

English Standard Version
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

New American Standard Bible
Let's hold firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

New Century Version
Let us hold firmly to the hope that we have confessed, because we can trust God to do what he promised.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

Legacy Standard Bible
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

Berean Standard Bible
Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.

Contemporary English Version
We must hold tightly to the hope that we say is ours. After all, we can trust the one who made the agreement with us.

Complete Jewish Bible
Let us continue holding fast to the hope we acknowledge, without wavering; for the One who made the promise is trustworthy.

Darby Translation
Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he [is] faithful who has promised;)

Easy-to-Read Version
We must hold on to the hope we have, never hesitating to tell people about it. We can trust God to do what he promised.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And washed in our bodies with pure water, let vs keepe the profession of our hope, without wauering, (for he is faithfull that promised)

George Lamsa Translation
Let us remain firm in the profession of our faith without wavering: for he who has promised us is faithful.

Good News Translation
Let us hold on firmly to the hope we profess, because we can trust God to keep his promise.

Lexham English Bible
Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who promised is faithful.

Literal Translation
let us hold fast the confession of the hope unyielding, for He who has promised is faithful.

American Standard Version
let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:

Bible in Basic English
Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:

Hebrew Names Version
let us hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful.

International Standard Version
Let us continue to hold firmly to the hope that we confess without wavering, for the one who made the promise is faithful.1 Corinthians 1:9; 10:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:24; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; Hebrews 4:14; 11:11;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
and let us persevere in the confession of our hope, and not swerve; for faithful is He who hath promised us.

Murdock Translation
And let us persevere in the profession of our hope, and not waver; for he is faithful who hath made the promise to us.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let vs holde the profession of the hope without waueryng, (for he is faythfull that promised:)

English Revised Version
let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:

World English Bible
let us hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised) And let us consider one another,

Weymouth's New Testament
Let us hold firmly to an unflinching avowal of our hope, for He is faithful who gave us the promises.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and holde we the confessioun of oure hope, bowinge to no side; for he is trewe that hath made the biheeste.

Update Bible Version
let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it not waver; for he is faithful that promised:

Webster's Bible Translation
Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; for he [is] faithful that promised:

New English Translation
And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

New King James Version
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

New Living Translation
Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.

New Life Bible
Let us hold on to the hope we say we have and not be changed. We can trust God that He will do what He promised.

New Revised Standard
Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let us hold fast the confession of the hope without wavering, - for, faithful, is he that hath promised;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised):

Revised Standard Version
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and let vs kepe the profession of oure hope with oute waveringe (for he is faythfull that promysed)

Young's Literal Translation
may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful [is] He who did promise),

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and let vs kepe the profession of oure hope without wauerynge (for he is faithfull that hath promysed)

Mace New Testament (1729)
Let us stedfastly maintain the hope which we have avow'd, since he is faithful that has promised:

Simplified Cowboy Version
Let us tie hard and fast to the hope we've been given. God don't crawfish on his promises.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹Therefore, believers, since we have confidence and full freedom to enter the Holy Place [the place where God dwells] by [means of] the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by this new and living way which He initiated and opened for us through the veil [as in the Holy of Holies], that is, through His flesh, ²¹and since we have a great and wonderful Priest [Who rules] over the house of God, ²²let us approach [God] with a true and sincere heart in unqualified assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ²³Let us seize and hold tightly the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is reliable and trustworthy and faithful [to His word];²⁴and let us consider [thoughtfully] how we may encourage one another to love and to do good deeds, ²⁵not forsaking our meeting together [as believers for worship and instruction], as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more [faithfully] as you see the day [of Christ's return] approaching. ²⁶For if we go on willfully and deliberately sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice [to atone] for our sins [that is, no further offering to anticipate], ²⁷but a kind of awful and terrifying expectation of [divine] judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE and BURNING WRATH WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES [those who put themselves in opposition to God]. ²⁸Anyone who has ignored and set aside the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hold: Hebrews 3:6, Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 4:14, Revelation 3:11

wavering: James 1:6

for: Hebrews 6:18, Hebrews 11:11, 1 Corinthians 1:9, 1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:24, 2 Thessalonians 3:3, Titus 1:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:9 - the faithful 2 Chronicles 36:22 - that the word Lamentations 3:23 - great Luke 18:8 - when Romans 11:22 - if thou 1 Corinthians 15:2 - keep in memory Galatians 5:1 - Stand Philippians 4:1 - so 1 Thessalonians 3:8 - if 1 Thessalonians 5:21 - hold 2 Timothy 1:13 - Hold Hebrews 12:15 - Looking Hebrews 12:28 - have 1 John 1:9 - he is Revelation 2:13 - thou holdest Revelation 2:25 - that

Cross-References

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God [with reverence] and abstained from and turned away from evil [because he honored God].

Jeremiah 25:20
and all the foreign (mixed) population, all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (and [their cities of] Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering,.... Either in the grace or doctrine of faith, or in the profession of both; :-.

For he [is] faithful that promised; that is God; and it is true of Father, Son, and Spirit; but God the Father may be more especially designed: he is a promising God, and is known to be so by his people; he is eminently and emphatically the Promiser; and all other promisers, and the promises made by them, signify little; but the promises of God are exceeding great and precious, very ancient, free, and unconditional, irrevocable and immutable, and are admirably suited to the cases of his people, and will be fulfilled everyone of them: they include in them things temporal, spiritual, and eternal; things temporal, as that his people shall not want, that their afflictions shall work for good, and that he will support them under all their troubles; things spiritual, as that he will be their God, which takes in his everlasting love to them, and his gracious presence with them, and his protection of them; and that all grace shall be wrought in them, and every blessing of grace bestowed on them: and things eternal; as everlasting glory and happiness; the promise of eternal life was in God's heart, made in the covenant, and put into Christ's hands before the world began, and is declared in the Gospel: now God is faithful to all his promises, nor can he fail, or deceive; he is all wise and foreknowing of everything that comes to pass; he never changes his mind, nor forgets his word; and he is able to perform, and is the God of truth, and cannot lie; nor has he ever failed in anyone of his promises, nor will he suffer his faithfulness to fail; and this is a strong argument to hold fast a profession of faith.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering - To secure this was one of the leading designs of this Epistle, and hence, the apostle adverts to it so frequently. It is evident that those whom he wrote were suffering persecution Hebrews 12:0, and that there was great danger that they would apostatize. As these persecutions came probably from the Jews, and as the aim was to induce them to return to their former opinions, the object of the apostle is to show that there was in the Christian scheme every advantage of which the Jews could boast; everything pertaining to the dignity of the great Founder of the system, the character of the High Priest, and the nature and value of the sacrifices offered, and that all this was possessed far more abundantly in the permanent Christian system than in what was typical in its character, and which were designed soon to vanish away. In view of all this, therefore, the apostle adds that they should hold fast the profession of their faith without being shaken by their trials, or by the arguments of their enemies. We have the same inducement to hold fast the profession of our faith - for it is the same religion still; we have the same Saviour, and there is held out to us still the same prospect of heaven.

For he is faithful that promised - To induce them to hold fast their profession, the apostle adds this additional consideration. God, who had promised eternal life to them, was faithful to all that he had said. The argument here is:

(1)That since God is so faithful to us, we ought to be faithful to him;

(2)The fact that he is faithful is an encouragement to us.

We are dependent on him for grace to hold fast our profession. If he were to prove unfaithful, we should have no strength to do it. But this he never does; and we may be assured, that all that he has promised he will perform. To the service of such a God, therefore, we should adhere without wavering; compare the notes on 1 Corinthians 10:13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith — The word ομολογια, from ομου, together, and λογος, a word, implies that general consent that was among Christians on all the important articles of their faith and practice; particularly their acknowledgment of the truth of the Gospel, and of Jesus Christ, as the only victim for sin, and the only Saviour from it. If the word washed above refer to Christian baptism in the case of adults, then the profession is that which the baptized then made of their faith in the Gospel; and of their determination to live and die in that faith.

The various readings on this clause are many in the MSS., c. Της ελπιδος την ὁμολογιαν, the confession of our HOPE D*, two of the Itala, Vulgate, Erpen's Arabic, and the AEthiopic. Ὁμολογιαν της πιστεως, the confession of FAITH; one of the Barberini MSS. and two others. This is the reading which our translators have followed; but it is of very little authority. Την επαγγελιαν της ελπιδος, the promise of HOPE; St. Chrysostom. Την ελπιδα της ὁμολογιας, the HOPE of our PROFESSION; one of Petavius's MSS. But among all these, the confession or profession of HOPE is undoubtedly the genuine reading. Now, among the primitive Christians, the hope which they professed was the resurrection of the body, and everlasting life; every thing among these Christians was done and believed in reference to a future state; and for the joy that this set before them, they, like their Master, endured every cross, and despised all shame: they expected to be with God, through Christ; this hope they professed to have; and they confessed boldly and publicly the faith on which this hope was built. The apostle exhorts them to hold fast this confession without wavering-never to doubt the declarations made to them by their Redeemer, but having the full assurance of faith that their hearts were sprinkled from an evil conscience, that they had found redemption in the blood of the lamb, they might expect to be glorified with their living Head in the kingdom of their Father.

He is faithful that promised — The eternal life, which is the object of your hope, is promised to you by him who cannot lie; as he then is faithful who has given you this promise, hold fast the profession of your hope.