Hebrews 10:23
New International Version
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, 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.

English Standard Version
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.

Berean Literal Bible
We should hold fast to the confession of our hope, unwavering; for the One having promised is faithful.

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

New King James 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;

NASB 1995
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

NASB 1977
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.

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];

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who 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:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And let us grasp firmly the confession of our hope and not waver, for he who has promised us is faithful.

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We must continue to hold firmly to our declaration of faith. The one who made the promise is faithful.

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

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.

Literal Standard Version
may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope (for He who promised [is] faithful),

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

New American Bible
Let us hold unwaveringly to our confession that gives us hope, for he who made the promise is trustworthy.

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

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

New Heart English Bible
let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

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

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

World English Bible
let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

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

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Audio Bible



Context
A Call to Persevere
22let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. 24And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.…

Cross References
Psalm 26:1
Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

Lamentations 3:23
They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

1 Corinthians 1:9
God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

2 Corinthians 9:13
Because of the proof this ministry provides, the saints will glorify God for your obedient confession of the gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all the others.

Hebrews 3:1
Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.


Treasury of Scripture

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

hold.

Hebrews 3:6,14
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end…

Hebrews 4:14
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

Revelation 3:11
Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

wavering.

James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

for.

Hebrews 6:18
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Hebrews 11:11
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Hebrews 10
1. The weakness of the law sacrifices.
10. The sacrifice of Christ's body once offered,
14. for ever has taken away sins.
19. An exhortation to hold fast the faith with patience and thanksgiving.














(23) In this verse again we have the characteristic words of earlier exhortations: "hold fast" (Hebrews 3:6; Hebrews 3:14); "profession," or, rather, confession (Hebrews 3:1; Hebrews 4:14).

Of our faith.--This rendering, apparently found in no earlier English version, is supposed to be due to oversight on the part of our translators. The true reading is "of the hope" (Hebrews 6:11; Hebrews 6:18-19). The two following words must be joined with "confession," "let us hold fast the confession of the (Christian) hope so that it waver not." This hope "maketh not ashamed" (Romans 5:5), for the promise is sure. . . .

Verses 23-25. - Let us hold fast the confession (ὁμολογίαν, see Hebrews 3:1, and ref.; also Hebrews 4:14) of our hope without wavering (ἀκλινῆ, agreeing with "confession"); for he is faithful that promised: and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. The readers, having been exhorted to confidence towards God, are further warned against remissness in confession before men, or in their duties within the Church towards each other. They had once, at their baptism, "confessed the good confession" (τὴν καλὴν ὁμολογίαν, 1 Timothy 6:12). Let not the recurrence of Jewish prejudices, or either influence or persecution from their Jewish compatriots, or any delay of the Parousia, induce them to waver in maintaining it. Some among them did, it could not be denied, show signs of such wavering, notably in their remiss attendance at Christian worship; let the faithful give heed to keeping faith alive in themselves and others, and especially through the means of the regular Church assemblies. That by τὴν ἐπισυναγωγὴν ἑαυτῶν is meant definitely the actual assembling together of Christians for reading, exhortation, and worship (such as is referred to in 1 Corinthians 11; James 2:2, etc.,; and described by Justin Martyr, 'Apol., c. 87), we hold confidently with the majority of commentators and with Chrysostom. The word ἐπισυναγωγὴ occurs in the New Testament only here and 2 Thessalonians 2:1, where it denotes the gathering together at the Parousia. In 2 Macc. 2:7, where alone it occurs in the LXX., it expresses the actual assembling of people together, as does the verb ἑπισυνάγω, both in the LXX. and the New Testament (cf. Matthew 23:37; Matthew 24:31; Mark 13:27; Mark 1:33; Luke 12:1). Hence, and in regard to the context as well as the etymology of the word, we may reject the less definite meaning, by some here assigned to it, of Christian communion (conjugatio fidelium), and the explanation of Bengel: "Sensus est, non modo debetis synagogam frequentare, ut Judaei, quod libentius facitis, sed etiam episynagogam, ut Christiani. Neque tamen innuitur praecise aggregatio ad unum locum, aut aggregatio ad unam fidem; sed, medio sensu, congregatio mutua per amorem et communicatio publica et privata officiorum Christianorum." The seen approach of the second advent (τὴν ἡμέραν: cf. 1 Corinthians 3:13) is adduced as an additional argument against remissness. The word βλέπετε seems to imply more than the general belief in its imminence, founded on the language of Christ. It would seem as if the signs of the times were interpreted as denoting its approach (el. 1 John 2:18). And it may be that they were rightly so interpreted in reference to the primary fulfillment of our Savior's words, though to that only, as the event proved. The blending together in the discourses of Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 17. and 21, of the times of the fall of Jerusalem and of the final day, would naturally lead Christians to regard the signs of the first event as denoting the other also. And indeed the imminence of the first, of which the signs were really apparent, was in itself a peculiar reason why the Hebrew Christians should stick resolutely to Christianity, for its own sake and apart from Judaism. Else might their whole hold on Christ be loosened in the temple's fall Thus, though the writer might share in the mistaken view then prevalent of the imminence of the final day, his warning, founded on the supposed signs of it, hits well the peculiar needs of his readers.

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Greek
Let us hold
Κατέχωμεν (Katechōmen)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 2722: From kata and echo; to hold down, in various applications.

resolutely
ἀκλινῆ (aklinē)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 186: Unbent, unyielding, resolute, firm. Not leaning, i.e. firm.

to the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

hope
ἐλπίδος (elpidos)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 1680: Hope, expectation, trust, confidence. From a primary elpo; expectation or confidence.

we profess,
ὁμολογίαν (homologian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3671: A profession, confession. From the same as homologeo; acknowledgment.

for
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

He who
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

promised
ἐπαγγειλάμενος (epangeilamenos)
Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1861: From epi and the base of aggelos; to announce upon, i.e. to engage to do something, to assert something respecting oneself.

[is] faithful.
πιστὸς (pistos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4103: Trustworthy, faithful, believing. From peitho; objectively, trustworthy; subjectively, trustful.


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