Hebrews 4:3

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.

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  • Heb 3:11 : 11 as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"
  • Ps 95:11 : 11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."
  • Matt 11:28-29 : 28 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
  • Matt 13:35 : 35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
  • Exod 20:11 : 11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
  • Heb 9:26 : 26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
  • 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,
  • Isa 28:12 : 12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus says Yahweh, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, 'Where is the good way?' and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
  • Rom 5:1-2 : 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; 2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 4:4-11
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    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 3:9-12
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    9 where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.

    10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;'

    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;

  • Heb 3:17-19
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    17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    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 4:1-2
    2 verses
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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.

    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.

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

  • Gen 2:2-3
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    2 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.

    3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

  • Heb 3:6-7
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    6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

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

  • 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

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    15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

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

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

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

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

  • Heb 3:14-15
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    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."

  • 3 By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

  • 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.

  • 11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

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

  • 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

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

  • 17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

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

  • Heb 2:2-3
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    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 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.

  • 3 "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

  • 27 This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

  • Heb 6:12-13
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    12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

    13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

  • 4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

  • 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

  • 10 And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

  • 19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;