Hebrews 10:27

Amplified Bible

but 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].

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries.

King James Version (1611)
But a certaine fearefull looking for of iudgement, and fiery indignation, which shall deuoure the aduersaries.

King James Version
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

English Standard Version
but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

New American Standard Bible
but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.

New Century Version
There is nothing but fear in waiting for the judgment and the terrible fire that will destroy all those who live against God.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.

Legacy Standard Bible
but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries.

Berean Standard Bible
but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

Contemporary English Version
They are God's enemies, and all they can look forward to is a terrible judgment and a furious fire.

Complete Jewish Bible
but only the terrifying prospect of Judgment, of raging fire that will consume the enemies .

Darby Translation
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.

Easy-to-Read Version
If we continue sinning, all that is left for us is a fearful time of waiting for the judgment and the angry fire that will destroy those who live against God.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But a fearefull looking for of iudgement, and violent fire, which shall deuoure the aduersaries.

George Lamsa Translation
But he is ready for the fearful judgment and the fiery indignation which shall consume the adversaries.

Good News Translation
Instead, all that is left is to wait in fear for the coming Judgment and the fierce fire which will destroy those who oppose God!

Lexham English Bible
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that is about to consume the adversaries.

Literal Translation
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and "zealous fire being about to consume the adversaries." Isa. 26:11

American Standard Version
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.

Bible in Basic English
But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.

Hebrew Names Version
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

International Standard Version
but only a terrifying prospect of judgment and a raging fire that will consume the enemies of Godof God">[fn]Ezekiel 36:5; Zephaniah 1:18; 3:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Hebrews 12:29;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
but a fearful judgment to come, and burning fire which devoureth the adversaries.

Murdock Translation
but the fearful judgment impendeth, and the zeal of fire that consumeth the adversaries.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But a fearefull lokyng for of iudgement, and violent fire, whiche shall deuour the aduersaries.

English Revised Version
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.

World English Bible
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries.

Weymouth's New Testament
There remains nothing but a certain awful expectation of judgement, and the fury of a fire which before long will devour the enemies of the truth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forwhi sum abiding of the dom is dreedful, and the suyng of fier, which schal waste aduersaries.

Update Bible Version
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.

Webster's Bible Translation
But a certain fearful apprehension of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

New English Translation
but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God's enemies.

New King James Version
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

New Living Translation
There is only the terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.

New Life Bible
Instead, we will stand before God and on that day He will judge us. And the hot fires of hell will burn up those who work against God.

New Revised Standard
but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But some fearful reception of judgment and fiery jealousy, about to devour the opposers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.

Revised Standard Version
but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
but a fearfull lokynge for iudgement and violent fyre which shall devoure the adversaries

Young's Literal Translation
but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but a fearfull lokynge for iudgment, and violente fyre, which shal deuoure ye aduersaries.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and nothing is to be expected but that dreadful judgment, and fiery indignation, which shall devour all such adversaries.

Simplified Cowboy Version
The only thing you'll have to look forward to is the last few breaths you have. God's judgment and a raging fire is what waits for you.

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
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a certain: Hebrews 2:3, Hebrews 12:25, 1 Samuel 28:19, 1 Samuel 28:20, Isaiah 33:14, Daniel 5:6, Hosea 10:8, Matthew 8:29, Luke 21:26, Luke 23:30, Revelation 6:15-17

fiery: Hebrews 12:29, Numbers 16:35, Psalms 21:9, Jeremiah 4:4, Ezekiel 36:5, Ezekiel 38:19, Joel 2:30, Nahum 1:5, Nahum 1:6, Zephaniah 1:18, Zephaniah 3:8, Malachi 4:1, Matthew 3:10, Matthew 3:12, Matthew 13:42, Matthew 13:50, Matthew 25:41, Mark 9:43-49, Luke 16:24, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, James 5:3, Revelation 20:15

which: Deuteronomy 32:43, Psalms 68:1, Psalms 68:2, Nahum 1:2, Nahum 1:8-10, Luke 19:27, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:12 - the fire Deuteronomy 28:66 - General Joshua 10:2 - they feared Joshua 24:20 - he will turn Job 15:23 - the day Proverbs 10:24 - fear Proverbs 11:23 - expectation Proverbs 21:16 - wandereth Isaiah 22:14 - Surely Isaiah 66:14 - the hand Ezekiel 3:19 - he shall Zechariah 11:6 - and out John 15:6 - he Romans 2:8 - indignation 1 Thessalonians 1:10 - the wrath 2 Thessalonians 2:8 - with the brightness Hebrews 6:8 - whose Hebrews 10:31 - a fearful Hebrews 10:38 - but 2 Peter 2:20 - after

Cross-References

Genesis 10:20
These are the descendants of Ham according to their constituent groups, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.

Genesis 10:28
and Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But a certain fearful looking for of judgment,.... Either of some outward visible judgment in this life, which sometimes falls on such persons; or of the particular judgment which immediately follows after death; or of the universal judgment, after the resurrection, and the dreadful sentence of condemnation which will then pass, and be immediately executed; and which will be done by Christ, and according to truth, and in strict justice; it is certain, and there will be no escaping it, for it will be general. Now there is in this life an expectation in men of a future judgment, and in wicked men it is a fearful one; it is dreaded by them, and more especially in such men before described, when their consciences are awakened; it is a very dreadful one, inexpressibly so:

and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries; which is to be understood, not of the fire of purgatory, for this is after judgment, that is pretended to be before it; this devours, that only purges, according to the Papists; this is for adversaries, that, as is supposed, is for friends: but perhaps some fiery judgment, expressive of the wrath and indignation of God, such as befell Sodom and Gomorrah, the two sons of Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and the men that rose up with Korah against Moses and Aaron: or rather the fire of hell, which is not corporeal and material, but is the wrath of God let down into the conscience; which shows the vile nature of sin, the strictness of God's justice, and the intolerableness of future punishment: and this is said to "devour the adversaries"; not only open ones, but secret, underhanded enemies, as the word here signifies; as such apostates are, before described, to God, and Christ, and the Spirit; to the Gospel, its doctrine, discipline, and ordinances; and to the children of God, and to the power of godliness in them: and with the fire of God's wrath they shall be devoured; not so as to be annihilated, but shall be eternally destroyed, both soul and body; that is, everlastingly punished, or punished with everlasting destruction.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But a certain fearful looking for of judgment - The word “certain” here does not mean “fixed, sure, inevitable,” as our translation would seem to imply. The Greek is the same as “a (τις tis) fearful expectation,” etc. So it is rendered by Tyndale. The idea is, that if there was voluntary apostasy after having embraced the Christian religion, there could be nothing but an expectation of the judgment to come. There could be no other hope but that through the gospel, and as this would have been renounced, it would follow that the soul must perish. The “fearful apprehension” or expectation here does not refer so much to what would be in the mind itself, or what would be experienced, as to what must follow. It might be that the person referred to would have no realizing sense of all this, and still his situation be that of one who had nothing to expect but the terrors of the judgment to come.

And fiery indignation - Fire is often used in the Scriptures as an emblem of fierce punishment. The idea is, that the person referred to could expect nothing but the wrath of God.

Which shall devour the adversaries - All who become the adversaries or enemies of the Lord. Fire is often said to devour, or consume, and the meaning here is, that those who should thus become the enemies of the Lord must perish.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 27. A certain fearful looking for of judgment — From this it is evident that God will pardon no man without a sacrifice for sin; for otherwise, as Dr. Macknight argues, it would not follow, from there remaining to apostates no more sacrifice for sin, that there must remain to them a dreadful expectation of judgment.

And fiery indignation — και πυρος ζηλος. A zeal, or fervour of fire; something similar to the fire that came down from heaven and destroyed Korah and his company; Numbers 16:35.

Probably the apostle here refers to the case of the unbelieving Jews in general, as in chap. Hebrews 6:0: to the dreadful judgment that was coming upon them, and the burning up their temple and city with fire. These people had, by the preaching of Christ and his apostles, received the knowledge of the truth. It was impossible that they could have witnessed his miracles and heard his doctrine without being convinced that he was the Messiah, and that their own system was at an end; but they rejected this only sacrifice at a time when God abolished their own: to that nation, therefore, there remained no other sacrifice for sin; therefore the dreadful judgment came, the fiery indignation was poured out, and they, as adversaries, were devoured by it.