Hebrews 4:5

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.’”
  • Heb 3:11 : 11 “As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”
  • Heb 4:3 : 3 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 4:1-4
    4 verses
    86%

    1 God’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.

    2 For 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.

    3 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.

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

  • Heb 4:6-11
    6 verses
    84%

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

    7 So 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.”

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

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

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

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

  • Heb 3:10-12
    3 verses
    81%

    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!’”

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

  • Heb 3:17-19
    3 verses
    80%

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 72%

    29 See, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

    30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

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

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 By 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.

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

  • 14 He said,“This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.

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

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

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

  • 69%

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

    17 It 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.’”

  • 6 and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 6 as also in another place God says,“You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

  • 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

  • 15 In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

  • 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.

  • 20 But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

  • 8 Ascend, O LORD, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength!

  • 2 Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.

  • Ps 132:4-5
    2 verses
    67%

    4 I will not allow my eyes to sleep, or my eyelids to slumber,

    5 until I find a place for the LORD, a fine dwelling place for the Powerful One of Jacob.”

  • 7 The whole earth rests and is quiet; they break into song.

  • 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

  • 14 And the LORD said,“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

  • 18 My people will live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places.

  • 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,

  • 12 so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

  • 8 “Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy.

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