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◄ Hebrews 10:27►

New International Version
but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

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

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

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

Berean Literal Bible
but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment and fury of fire being about to devour the adversaries.

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

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

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

NASB 1995
but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.

NASB 1977
but a certain 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.

Amplified Bible
but a kind of awfuland terrifying expectation of [divine] judgment and THE FURY OF A FIREand BURNING WRATH WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES [those who put themselves in opposition to God].

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

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

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All that is left is a terrifying wait for judgment and a raging fire that will consume God's enemies.

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!

International Standard Version
but only a terrifying prospect of judgment and a raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

NET Bible
but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God's enemies.

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

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

Weymouth 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.

Majority Text Translations

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

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

Literal Translations

Literal Standard Version
but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

Berean Literal Bible
but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment and fury of fire being about to devour the adversaries.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
But a certain terrible expectation of judgment and jealousy of fire, being about to devour the adversaries.

Catholic Translations

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
but instead, a certain terrible expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire that shall consume its adversaries.

New American Bible
but a fearful prospect of judgment and a flaming fire that is going to consume the adversaries.

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

Translations from Aramaic

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But that terrible judgment is ready and the zeal of fire which consumes the enemies.

NT Translations

Anderson New Testament
but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and a fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

Godbey New Testament
but a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and violence of fire, about to devour the adversaries.

Haweis New Testament
but a certain terrible expectation of judgment, and a burning indignation, ready to devour these enemies.

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

Weymouth 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.

Worrell New Testament
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fierceness of fire about to devour the opposers.

Worsley New Testament
but a dreadful expectation of judgement, and a fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

Additional Translations ...

Audio Bible

Context

A Call to Persevere
…26If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.…

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Cross References

2 Peter 3:7
And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Revelation 20:15
And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Matthew 13:41-42
The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness. / And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Romans 2:8-9
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger. / There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;

2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. / They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

Revelation 14:10-11
he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. / And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”

John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

Matthew 25:41
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Jude 1:7
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

Isaiah 66:24
“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

Daniel 12:2
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Psalm 21:9
You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

Isaiah 30:33
For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

Treasury of Scripture

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

a certain.

Hebrews 2:3
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heardhim;

Hebrews 12:25
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much moreshall not weescape, if we turn away from him thatspeaketh from heaven:

1 Samuel 28:19,20
Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrowshalt thou and thy sonsbe with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines…

fiery.

Hebrews 12:29
For our Godis a consuming fire.

Numbers 16:35
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

Psalm 21:9
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

which.

Deuteronomy 32:43
Rejoice, O ye nations,with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land,and to his people.

Psalm 68:1,2
To the chief Musician, A Psalmor Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him…

Nahum 1:2,8-10
Godis jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, andis furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reservethwrath for his enemies…

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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.

Study Bible

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but only a fearful expectation of judgment
This phrase highlights the certainty and inevitability of divine judgment for those who reject the truth of the Gospel. In the context of Hebrews, the author warns against apostasy, emphasizing the severe consequences of turning away from Christ after receiving the knowledge of the truth. This expectation of judgment is rooted in the Old Testament, where God's justice is a recurring theme (e.g.,Deuteronomy 32:35-36). The fear associated with this expectation is not merely emotional but is a recognition of the holiness and righteousness of God, who will judge the living and the dead (2 Timothy 4:1).

and of raging fire
The imagery of fire is often used in Scripture to symbolize God's judgment and purification. In the Old Testament, fire consumed the sacrifices on the altar, representing God's acceptance and the purification of sin (Leviticus 9:24). In the New Testament, fire is associated with the final judgment (Revelation 20:14-15). This "raging fire" signifies the intensity and thoroughness of God's judgment against sin and rebellion. It serves as a warning to those who might be tempted to abandon their faith in Christ.

that will consume all adversaries
The term "adversaries" refers to those who oppose God and His purposes. In the biblical narrative, adversaries are not only external enemies but also those within the community of faith who turn away from God. The consumption of adversaries by fire is reminiscent of the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24-25) and the destruction of Korah and his followers (Numbers 16:35). This phrase underscores the totality of God's judgment, leaving no room for escape or resistance. It also serves as a sobering reminder of the consequences of rejecting God's grace offered through Jesus Christ.

Persons / Places / Events

1.The Author of Hebrews
Traditionally attributed to Paul, though the exact authorship is uncertain. The author writes to Jewish Christians, encouraging them to remain steadfast in their faith.

2.Jewish Christians
The primary audience of the letter, who were facing persecution and were tempted to revert to Judaism to avoid suffering.

3.Judgment
A future event where God will judge the world, separating the righteous from the wicked.

4.Adversaries
Those who oppose God and His ways, often referring to those who reject the gospel of Jesus Christ.

5.Raging Fire
Symbolic of God's wrath and the final judgment, drawing imagery from the Old Testament.

Teaching Points

The Seriousness of Apostasy
Apostasy, or falling away from the faith, is a grave matter.Hebrews 10:27 warns of the consequences of turning away from the truth after knowing it.

The Certainty of Judgment
God's judgment is certain and should be a sobering reminder for believers to remain faithful and obedient.

The Nature of God's Wrath
God's wrath is depicted as a consuming fire, emphasizing His holiness and justice against sin.

Encouragement to Persevere
Believers are encouraged to persevere in their faith, knowing that turning away leads to dire consequences.

The Call to Evangelism
Understanding the reality of judgment should motivate Christians to share the gospel with urgency.

Bible Study Questions and Answers

1.What is the meaning of Hebrews 10:27?

2.How does Hebrews 10:27 warn against willful sinning in a believer's life?

3.What does "fearful expectation of judgment" mean for Christians today?

4.How can Hebrews 10:27 deepen our understanding of God's justice and holiness?

5.How does Hebrews 10:27 connect with the theme of judgment in Revelation?

6.What practical steps can we take to avoid the "raging fire" mentioned?

7.What does Hebrews 10:27 imply about the consequences of rejecting Christ's sacrifice?

8.How does Hebrews 10:27 relate to the concept of divine judgment?

9.What historical context influenced the writing of Hebrews 10:27?

10.What are the top 10 Lessons from Hebrews 10?

11.What happened to people who died before Jesus?

12.Hebrews 10:26-27 implies a terrifying judgment for deliberate sin after knowing the truth; does this conflict with teachings on God's mercy and grace elsewhere?

13.Hebrews 9:27 claims people die once and then face judgment; how does this square with reports of near-death experiences or beliefs in reincarnation?

14.In Ezekiel 25:2-7, can any solid historical or archaeological evidence confirm the exact downfall of the Ammonites as predicted?

What Does Hebrews 10:27 Mean

only a fearful expectation

- The writer warns that those who deliberately reject Christ after knowing the truth (Hebrews 10:26) forfeit any hope of safety.

- Without the refuge found in Jesus, all that remains is a dread-filled anticipation (cf.Proverbs 10:24;Luke 12:5).

- Fear here is not merely emotional; it is a sober recognition that God’s promised justice will certainly arrive (Romans 2:5-6).

of judgment

- Scripture presents judgment as an appointed, literal event (Acts 17:31;2 Corinthians 5:10).

- This judgment is thorough, exposing motives and actions (1 Corinthians 4:5), leaving no room for excuses (Romans 1:20).

- For the believer, judgment was borne by Christ (John 5:24); for the willfully disobedient, it awaits unmitigated (John 3:36).

and of raging fire

- Fire throughout the Bible signifies God’s holy wrath consuming impurity (Deuteronomy 4:24;Isaiah 66:15-16).

- “Raging” underscores intensity—this is not symbolic discomfort but real, divine retribution (Matthew 13:41-42).

- The same fire that purifies the faithful (1 Peter 1:7) destroys the unrepentant (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9).

that will consume all adversaries

- God regards those who reject His Son as adversaries (James 4:4;1 John 2:22-23).

- “Consume” points to finality: total defeat, not temporary setback (Revelation 20:14-15).

- No enemy—human or demonic—escapes this outcome (Psalm 21:8-9;Malachi 4:1).

summary

Hebrews 10:27 delivers a solemn promise: anyone who spurns the atoning work of Christ faces inevitable, terrifying judgment. God’s justice is certain, His fiery wrath is real, and every opponent of His holiness will be irrevocably consumed. The verse calls us to cling to the only refuge—faith in Jesus—while urging sober reverence for the God who keeps His word.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(27)But a certain fearful looking for.--Better,But a fearful awaiting of judgment, and a jealousy of fire that shall devour the adversaries. For Christ's "waiting" servants the thought of "judgment" is lost in that of "salvation" (Hebrews 9:27-28); to these sinners nothing is left but the awaiting of judgment. The next words are a partial quotation, or an adaptation, ofIsaiah 26:11 : "Let them see (and be ashamed) the zeal for the people; yea, fire shall devour Thine adversaries." (The Greek translation gives the second clause correctly, but not the former part of the sentence.) In the prophetic imagery of the Old Testament the destruction of the enemies of Jehovah is but the other aspect of His zeal or jealousy for His people. This imagery was familiar to every Hebrew; and no words could show more powerfully than these that to forsake Christ for Judaism was (not to join, but) toabandon "the people of God." For such apostates there remaineth the zeal, the jealous wrath, of a devouring fire. (Comp.Hebrews 12:29; Malachi 4)

Parallel Commentaries ...

Greek

but only
δέ(de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161:A primary particle; but, and, etc.

a
τις(tis)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5100:Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object.

fearful
φοβερὰ(phobera)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5398:Fearful, dreadful, terrible. From phobos; frightful, i.e. formidable.

expectation
ἐκδοχὴ(ekdochē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1561:A waiting for, expectation. From ekdechomai; expectation.

of judgment
κρίσεως(kriseōs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 2920:Decision; by extension, a tribunal; by implication, justice.

and
καὶ(kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532:And, even, also, namely.

raging
ζῆλος(zēlos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2205:From zeo; properly, heat, i.e. 'zeal' (figuratively, of God), or an enemy, malice).

fire
πυρὸς(pyros)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 4442:Fire; the heat of the sun, lightning; fig: strife, trials; the eternal fire. A primary word; 'fire'.

that will
μέλλοντος(mellontos)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 3195:A strengthened form of melo; to intend, i.e. Be about to be, do, or suffer something.

consume
ἐσθίειν(esthiein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 2068:Strengthened for a primary edo; used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by phago; to eat.

[all]
τοὺς(tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588:The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

adversaries.
ὑπεναντίους(hypenantious)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5227:Opposite to, adverse; subst: an adversary. From hupo and enantios; under contrary to, i.e. Opposed or an opponent.

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NT Letters: Hebrews 10:27 But a certain fearful expectation of judgment (Heb. He. Hb)