Hebrews 4:1

World English Bible (2000)

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

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  • Heb 12:15 : 15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
  • Heb 4:9 : 9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
  • Prov 28:14 : 14 Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
  • Rom 3:3-4 : 3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God? 4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."
  • Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
  • Heb 4:3-5 : 3 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. 4 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;" 5 and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."
  • Heb 13:7 : 7 Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
  • Rom 3:23 : 23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
  • Rom 11:20 : 20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;
  • 1 Cor 9:26-27 : 26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
  • 1 Cor 10:12 : 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
  • 2 Tim 2:13 : 13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself."
  • Heb 2:1-3 : 1 Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense; 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
  • Heb 3:11 : 11 as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"
  • Matt 7:21-23 : 21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?' 23 Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'
  • Matt 7:26-27 : 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."
  • Luke 12:45-46 : 45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, 46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
  • Luke 13:25-30 : 25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.' 26 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.' 27 He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.' 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrown outside. 29 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God. 30 Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last."
  • Matt 24:48-25:3 : 48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,' 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, 50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it, 51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be. 1 "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,
  • Jer 32:40 : 40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
  • Num 14:34 : 34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.'
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 "Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now Yahweh says, 'Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
  • Prov 14:16 : 16 A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.

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  • Heb 4:2-11
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    2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.

    3 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.

    4 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

    5 and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."

    6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

    7 he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts."

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

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

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

    11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

  • Heb 3:11-15
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    11 as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

    12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

    13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

    14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

    15 while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

  • Heb 3:18-19
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    18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

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

  • Heb 2:1-3
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    1 Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

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

    3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

  • Heb 10:31
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    31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.

  • Heb 12:14-15
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    14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

    15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

  • Heb 4:16
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    16 Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

  • Heb 3:7
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    7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

  • Ps 95:11
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    11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."

  • Heb 12:28
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    28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

  • Deut 12:9
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    9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Heb 6:11-12
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    11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

    12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

  • Heb 10:23-25
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    23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

    24 Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

    25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

  • Heb 4:14
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    14 Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

  • Heb 11:39-40
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    39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,

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

  • Gal 4:11
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    11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

  • Heb 10:27
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    27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

  • Heb 13:6
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    6 So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

  • Josh 22:24
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    24 "If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, 'In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, "What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

  • 1 Thess 5:6
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    6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.

  • Deut 1:29
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    29 Then I said to you, "Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.

  • Heb 10:36
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    36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

  • Heb 12:25
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    25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

  • 2 John 1:8
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    8 Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

  • Heb 10:19
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    19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,