Hebrews 4:3

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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.

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  • Heb 3:11 : 11 “As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”
  • Ps 95:11 : 11 So I made a vow in my anger,‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”
  • Matt 11:28-29 : 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
  • Matt 13:35 : 35 This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet:“I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 God saw all that he had made– and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.
  • Exod 20:11 : 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.
  • Heb 9:26 : 26 for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.
  • 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.
  • Isa 28:12 : 12 In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 The LORD said to his people:“You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. Ask where the old, reliable paths are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessing and follow it. If you do, you will find rest for your souls.” But they said,“We will not follow it!”
  • Rom 5:1-2 : 1 The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 4:4-11
    8 verses
    87%

    4For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way:“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”

    5but to repeat the text cited earlier:“They will never enter my rest!”

    6Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

    7So God again ordains a certain day,“Today,” speaking through David after so long a time, as in the words quoted before,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts.”

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

    9Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

    10For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

    11Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

  • Heb 3:9-12
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    9“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

    10“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

    11“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”

    12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

  • Heb 3:17-19
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    17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

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

  • Heb 4:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1God’s Promised Rest Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

    2For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.

  • Ps 95:11
    79%

    11So I made a vow in my anger,‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

    3God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

  • Heb 3:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.

    7Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

  • Exod 16:30
    71%

    30So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Exod 31:15-17
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    70%

    15Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

    16The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

    17It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

  • Job 3:17
    70%

    17There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

  • Isa 28:12
    70%

    12In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.

  • Heb 3:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.

    15As it says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

  • Heb 11:3
    70%

    3By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.

  • Lev 26:35
    69%

    35All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

  • Exod 20:11
    69%

    11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

  • Exod 34:21
    69%

    21“On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.

  • 2 Pet 3:4
    68%

    4and saying,“Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”

  • Deut 12:9
    68%

    9for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Heb 6:17
    67%

    17In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

  • Heb 10:36
    67%

    36For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

  • Heb 2:2-3
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    67%

    2For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,

    3how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

  • Heb 11:39-40
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    67%

    39And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

    40For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

  • Lev 23:3
    67%

    3The Weekly Sabbath“‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD in all the places where you live.

  • Heb 12:27
    67%

    27Now this phrase“once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

  • Heb 6:12-13
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    67%

    12so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

    13Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

  • Rom 4:4
    67%

    4Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

  • Heb 10:15
    66%

    15And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,

  • Heb 1:10
    66%

    10And,“You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

  • Heb 6:19
    66%

    19We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast, which reaches inside behind the curtain,