Hebrews 4:3

American Standard Version (1901)

For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 3:11 : 11 As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
  • Ps 95:11 : 11 Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.
  • Matt 11:28-29 : 28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
  • Matt 13:35 : 35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world. [
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
  • Exod 20:11 : 11 for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
  • Heb 9:26 : 26 else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
  • 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,
  • Isa 28:12 : 12 to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein] .
  • Rom 5:1-2 : 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; 2 through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 4:4-11
    8 verses
    87%

    4For he hath said somewhere of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;

    5and in this [place] again, They shall not enter into my rest.

    6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

    7he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before), To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.

    8For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

    9There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.

    10For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

    11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

  • Heb 3:9-12
    4 verses
    83%

    9Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me], And saw my works forty years.

    10Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;

    11As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

    12Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:

  • Heb 3:17-19
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    83%

    17And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient?

    19And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

  • Heb 4:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

    2For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.

  • Ps 95:11
    79%

    11Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

    3And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

  • Heb 3:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.

    7Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,

  • Exod 16:30
    71%

    30So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Exod 31:15-17
    3 verses
    70%

    15Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah; whosoever doeth any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

    16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

    17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

  • Job 3:17
    70%

    17There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

  • Isa 28:12
    70%

    12to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

  • Heb 3:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:

    15while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

  • Heb 11:3
    70%

    3By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.

  • Lev 26:35
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    35As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

  • Exod 20:11
    69%

    11for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

  • Exod 34:21
    69%

    21Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

  • 2 Pet 3:4
    68%

    4and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

  • Deut 12:9
    68%

    9for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

  • Heb 6:17
    67%

    17Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

  • Heb 10:36
    67%

    36For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

  • Heb 2:2-3
    2 verses
    67%

    2For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

    3how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

  • Heb 11:39-40
    2 verses
    67%

    39And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,

    40God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • Lev 23:3
    67%

    3Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of work: it is a sabbath unto Jehovah in all your dwellings.

  • Heb 12:27
    67%

    27And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

  • Heb 6:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

    13For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,

  • Rom 4:4
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    4Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt.

  • Heb 10:15
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    15And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for after he hath said,

  • Heb 1:10
    66%

    10And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands:

  • Heb 6:19
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    19which we have as an anchor of the soul, [a hope] both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil;