Hebrews 10:35

Webster's Bible Translation

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

King James Version (1611)
Cast not away therfore your confidence which hath great recompense of reward.

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

English Standard Version
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

New Century Version
So do not lose the courage you had in the past, which has a great reward.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, do not throw away that confidence of yours, which has a great reward.

Berean Standard Bible
So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.

Contemporary English Version
Keep on being brave! It will bring you great rewards.

Complete Jewish Bible
So don't throw away that courage of yours, which carries with it such a great reward.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
So don't lose the courage that you had in the past. Your courage will be rewarded richly.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompense of reward.

George Lamsa Translation
Do not lose, therefore, the confidence that you have, for it has a great reward.

Good News Translation
Do not lose your courage, then, because it brings with it a great reward.

Lexham English Bible
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has great reward.

Literal Translation
Then do not throw away your confidence, which has great reward.

Amplified Bible
Do not, therefore, fling away your [fearless] confidence, for it has a glorious and great reward.

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

Bible in Basic English
So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

International Standard Version
So do not throw away your confidence, since it holds a great reward for you.Matthew 5:12; 10:32;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Destroy not, therefore, the confidence which you have, for which there is a great reward.

Murdock Translation
Therefore cast not away your assurance which is to have a great reward.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Cast not awaye therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of rewarde.

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

World English Bible
Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

Weymouth's New Testament
Therefore do not cast from you your confident hope, for it will receive a vast reward.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor nyle ye leese youre trist, which hath greet rewarding.

Update Bible Version
Do not cast away therefore your boldness, which has great recompense of reward.

New English Translation
So do not throw away your confidence, because it has great reward.

New King James Version
Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.

New Living Translation
So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!

New Life Bible
Do not throw away your trust, for your reward will be great.

New Revised Standard
Do not, therefore, abandon that confidence of yours; it brings a great reward.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not, then, cast away your freedom of speech, - the which hath a great recompense.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.

Revised Standard Version
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Cast not awaye therfore youre confidence which hath great rewarde to recopence.

Young's Literal Translation
Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Cast not awaye therfore yor confidence, which hath so greate a rewarde.

Mace New Testament (1729)
don't therefore quit that resolution you have, which will be attended with so great a reward.

Simplified Cowboy Version
So don't throw all that away. Keep trusting in God and having the confidence you once had in Him. There's a great reward waiting on the faithful.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to say, his flesh; ²¹ And [having] a high priest over the house of God; ²² Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. ²³ Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; for he [is] faithful that promised: ²⁴ And let us consider one another to excite to love and to good works: ²⁵ Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. ²⁶ For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ But a certain fearful apprehension of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. ²⁸ He that despised Moses' law, died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Bible Verse Review
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Cast: Hebrews 3:6, Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 4:14

great: Hebrews 11:26, Psalms 19:11, Matthew 5:12, Matthew 10:32, Matthew 10:42, Luke 14:14, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Galatians 6:8-10

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:3 - Behold 2 Chronicles 15:7 - your work Psalms 71:14 - But Psalms 130:7 - for with Proverbs 23:18 - end Ecclesiastes 3:6 - and a time to cast Lamentations 3:26 - hope Matthew 13:21 - for Luke 18:7 - though Romans 2:7 - patient Romans 11:22 - if thou Romans 15:4 - that 1 Corinthians 13:13 - faith 2 Corinthians 5:6 - we are always Galatians 5:1 - Stand Galatians 6:9 - if Ephesians 6:8 - whatsoever Philippians 1:6 - confident Philippians 3:20 - our Philippians 4:1 - so Colossians 3:24 - ye shall 1 Thessalonians 5:8 - the hope Hebrews 2:2 - recompense Hebrews 12:1 - and the sin James 5:8 - ye also 1 Peter 1:13 - the grace 1 John 5:14 - this 2 John 1:8 - that we lose

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 off, nor should freedom, boldness, and confidence in it be slackened, or laid aside: or else a profession of faith is intended, which ought to be free and open, bold and courageous, firm and constant; and which ought by no means to be let go and dropped: or the grace of faith in its full assurance, with respect to interest in God, as a covenant God and Father, and in his love; and with respect to interest in Christ, and in his grace, and a right to the glorious inheritance, the better and enduring substance: and this shield of faith is by no means to be cast away; it was reckoned infamous and scandalous in soldiers to lose or cast away their shield; with the Grecians it was a capital crime, and punished with death b; to which the apostle may here allude. There are two sorts of believers, nominal and real; and there are two sorts of faith; an historical one, which may be in persons destitute of the grace of God, and is in devils; and a true and unfeigned one, which has salvation connected with it; the former may be cast away and lost; the latter, though it may be remiss and weak in its exercise, yet it cannot be wholly and finally lost; and this exhortation may be designed as a means of continuing it, and of perseverance in it: the reason urging it follows,

which hath great recompence of reward; freedom and boldness in prayer has its reward, for such that ask in faith shall have; and so has a firm and constant profession of religion, for he that endures to the end shall be saved; and so has a true and strong faith in Christ; everlasting salvation is connected with it; the reward of the inheritance follows upon it; and this reward is the recompense of God's own grace: and it is a very great one; it is the fruit of great love and grace; yea, it is no other than God himself, who is the exceeding great reward of his people; it is Christ and his glory, and the riches of it; it is a reward exceeding, and beyond all deserts of men, and beyond all thought and expression.

b Alex. ab. Alexand. Genial. Dier. l. 2. c. 13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Cast not away therefore your confidence - Greek “your boldness;” referring to their confident hope in God. They were not to cast this away, and to become timid, disheartened, and discouraged. They were to bear up manfully under all their trials, and to maintain a steadfast adherence to God and to his cause. The command is not to “cast this away.” Nothing could take it from them if they trusted in God, and it could be lost only by their own neglect or imprudence. Rosenmuller supposes (Alte und Neue Morgenland, “in loc.”) that there may be an allusion here to the disgrace which was attached to the act of a warrior if he cast away his shield. Among the Greeks this was a crime which was punishable with death. Alexander ab Alexand. Gen. Dier. L. ii c. 13. Among the ancient Germans, Tacitus says, that to lose the shield in battle was regarded as the deepest dishonor, and that those who were guilty of it were not allowed to be present at the sacrifices or in the assembly of the people. Many, says he, who had suffered this calamity, closed their own lives with the baiter under the loss of honor. Tac. Germ. c. 6. A similar disgrace would attend the Christian soldier if he should cast away his shield of faith; compare the notes, Ephesians 6:16.

Which hath great recompense of reward - It will furnish a reward by the peace of mind which it gives here, and will be connected with the rewards of heaven.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 35. Cast not away therefore your confidence — Την παρῥησιαν ὑμων· Your liberty of access to God; your title and right to approach his throne; your birthright as his sons and daughters; and the clear evidence you have of his favour, which, if you be not steady and faithful, you must lose. Do not throw it away, μη αποβαλητε. neither men nor devils can take it from you, and God will never deprive you of it if you continue faithful. There is a reference here to cowardly soldiers, who throw away their shields, and run away from the battle. This is your shield, your faith in Christ, which gives you the knowledge of salvation; keep it, and it will keep you.

The Lacedemonian women, when they presented the shields to their sons going to battle, were accustomed to say: Η ταν, η επι τας· "Either bring this back, or be brought back upon it;" alluding to the custom of bringing back a slain soldier on his own shield, a proof that he had preserved it to the last, and had been faithful to his country. They were accustomed also to excite their courage by delivering to them their fathers' shields with the following short address. Ταυτην ὁ πατηρ σοι αει εσωζε· και συ ουν ταυταν σωζε, η μη εσο· "This shield thy father always preserved; do thou preserve it also, or perish;" Lacaenarum Apophthegmata, PLUT. OPERA, a Wittenbach, vol. i. p. 682. Thus spake the Lacedemonian mothers to their sons; and what say the oracles of God to us? Μη αποβαλητε την παρῥησιαν ὑμων· Cast not away your confession of faith. This is your shield; keep it, and it will ever be your sure defence; for by it you will quench every fiery dart of the wicked one. The Church of Christ speaks this to all her sons, and especially to those employed in the work of the ministry. Of this shield, of this glorious system of salvation by Jesus Christ, illustrated and defended in this work, I say to each of my children: Ταυτην ὁ πατηρ σοι αει εσωζε· και συ ουν ταυταν σωζε, η μη εσο· This faith, thy father, by the grace of God, hath always kept; keep thou it also, or thou must expect to perish! May this be received both as a warning and encouragement!

Great recompense of reward. — No less than God's continual approbation; the peace that passeth all understanding ruling the heart here; and the glories of heaven as an eternal portion. Conscientiously keep the shield, and all these shall be thine. This will be thy reward; but remember that it is the mercy of God that gives it.