Hebrews 4:2

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
  • 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
  • Heb 4:6 : 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,
  • Heb 11:6 : 6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
  • Jas 1:21 : 21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
  • Heb 3:18-19 : 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.
  • 2 Thess 2:12-13 : 12 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
  • Acts 3:26 : 26 God, having raised up his servant, Jesus, sent him to you first, to bless you, in turning away everyone of you from your wickedness."
  • Acts 13:46 : 46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
  • Rom 2:25 : 25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
  • Rom 10:16-17 : 16 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
  • 1 Cor 13:3 : 3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
  • Gal 3:8 : 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."
  • Gal 4:13 : 13 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
  • 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

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  • Heb 4:5-6
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    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,

  • Heb 4:1
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    1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

  • Rom 10:16-18
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    16 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

    17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

    18 But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

  • Heb 4:3
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    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.

  • 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.

  • 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 4:10-11
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    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.

  • Rom 10:14
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    14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

  • Rom 15:21
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    21 But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven't heard will understand."

  • Heb 11:2
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    2 For by this, the elders obtained testimony.

  • Rom 3:3
    70%

    3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

  • Jas 2:14
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    14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6 For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

  • Rom 9:30
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    30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

  • Rom 10:8
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    8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

  • Jas 2:17
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    17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

  • Rom 4:14
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    14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

  • Mark 4:17
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    17 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

  • Heb 6:4-5
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    4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

    5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

  • 2 Cor 4:3
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    3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;

  • Heb 13:9
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    9 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

  • 2 Cor 4:13
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    13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, "I believed, and therefore I spoke." We also believe, and therefore also we speak;

  • 1 Thess 2:13
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    13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

  • Isa 28:12
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    12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear.

  • Mark 4:12
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    12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

  • Gal 3:4-5
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    4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

    5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

  • Matt 13:14
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    14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

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

  • Acts 14:7
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    7 There they preached the Good News.

  • Heb 3:15
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    15 while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

  • Heb 3:12
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    12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

  • 2 Cor 10:14
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    14 For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

  • Heb 5:11
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    11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

  • Heb 11:13
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    13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

  • Rom 11:30
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    30 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

  • Acts 28:26
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    26 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.