Hebrews 4:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

For we who have believed do enter into rest, as he said, "As I have sworn 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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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    For we who have believed are entering that rest, just as He said, "As I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest,'" even though His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, {G1487} They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    But we which have beleved do enter into his rest as contrarywyse he sayde to the other: I have sworne in my wrath they shall not enter into my rest. And that spake he verely longe after that the workes were made and the foudacio of ye worlde layde.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    (For we which haue beleued, enter in to his rest) acordynge as he sayde: Euen as I haue sworne in my wrath, They shal not enter in to my rest. And that (spake he) verely loge after that the workes fro the begynnynge of the worlde were made:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For we which haue beleeued, doe enter into rest, as he said to the other, As I haue sworne in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest: although the workes were finished from the foundation of the world.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For we which haue beleued, do enter into his rest, as he sayde: Euen as I haue sworne in my wrath, if they shal enter into my rest. Although the workes were made perfecte from the foundation of the worlde.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 3:11 : 11 So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.
  • Ps 95:11 : 11 Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
  • Matt 11:28-29 : 28 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls.
  • Matt 13:35 : 35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 And God saw everything that He had made, and they were very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
  • Exod 20:11 : 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end;
  • Heb 9:26 : 26 For then He would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
  • 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
  • Isa 28:12 : 12 To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus says the LORD, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.
  • Rom 5:1-2 : 1 Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 According as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:

Similar Verses (AI)

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    4For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested the seventh day from all his works."

    5And in this place again, "They shall not enter into my rest."

    6Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief:

    7Again, he designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after so long a time, as it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts."

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

    9There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

    10For he who has entered into his rest has also ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

    11Let us therefore labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.

  • Heb 3:9-12
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    9When your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

    10Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They always go astray in their heart; and they have not known My ways.

    11So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.

    12Beware, brothers and sisters, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

  • Heb 3:17-19
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    17But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not believe?

    19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

  • Heb 4:1-2
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    81%

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

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    11Unto whom I swore 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 sanctified it, because on it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.

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    6But Christ as a Son over His own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm until the end.

    7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear His voice,

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    30So the people rested on the seventh day.

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    15Six days may work be done; but the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

    16Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.

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

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

  • Isa 28:12
    70%

    12To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

  • Heb 3:14-15
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    14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end;

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    35As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.

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    21Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

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    4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

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    9For you have not yet come to the rest and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.

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    17In this way, God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable nature of His purpose, confirmed it with an oath:

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    36For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

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    2 verses
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    2For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

    3How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those that heard him;

  • Heb 11:39-40
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    39And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise,

    40God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

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    3Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy gathering; you shall do no work in it; it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

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    27And this phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

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    12That you not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

    13For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

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    4Now to him who works, the reward is not given of grace, but as a debt.

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    15The Holy Spirit also is a witness to us; for after he had said before,

  • Heb 1:10
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    10And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of Your hands:

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    19This hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the inner sanctuary behind the veil,