| Geneva Study Bible Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. People's New Testament 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence. Inasmuch as formerly ye endured so well, be faithful now. Some great period of trial was evidently being endured. Wesley's Notes 10:35 Cast not away therefore this your confidence - Your faith and hope; which none can deprive you of but yourselves. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 35-37. Consequent exhortation to confidence and endurance, as Christ is soon coming. Cast not away-implying that they now have "confidence," and that it will not withdraw of itself, unless they "cast it away" wilfully (compare Heb 3:14). which-Greek, "the which": inasmuch as being such as. hath-present tense: it is as certain as if you had it in your hand (Heb 10:37). It hath in reversion. recompense of reward-of grace not of debt: a reward of a kind which no mercenary self-seeker would seek: holiness will be its own reward; self-devoting unselfishness for Christ's sake will be its own rich recompense (see on [2582]Heb 2:2; [2583]Heb 11:26). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 10:32-39 Many and various afflictions united against the early Christians, and they had a great conflict. The Christian spirit is not a selfish spirit; it puts us upon pitying others, visiting them, helping them, and pleading for them. All things here are but shadows. The happiness of the saints in heaven will last for ever; enemies can never take it away as earthly goods. This will make rich amends for all we may lose and suffer here. The greatest part of the saints' happiness, as yet, is in promise. It is a trial of the patience of Christians, to be content to live after their work is done, and to stay for their reward till God's time to give it is come. He will soon come to them at death, to end all their sufferings, and to give them a crown of life. The Christian's present conflict may be sharp, but will be soon over. God never is pleased with the formal profession and outward duties and services of such as do not persevere; but he beholds them with great displeasure. And those who have been kept faithful in great trails for the time past, have reason to hope for the same grace to help them still to live by faith, till they receive the end of their faith and patience, even the salvation of their souls. Living by faith, and dying in faith, our souls are safe for ever. | 
