Hebrews 4:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

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,

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  • 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.
  • Heb 4:2 : 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.
  • Heb 4:9 : 9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
  • Num 14:12 : 12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
  • Num 14:31 : 31 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
  • Isa 65:15 : 15 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:
  • Matt 21:43 : 43 "Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruits.
  • Matt 22:9-9 : 9 Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.' 10 Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
  • Luke 14:21-24 : 21 "That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.' 22 "The servant said, 'Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.' 23 "The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.'"
  • Acts 13:46-47 : 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. 47 For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, 'I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, That you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"
  • Acts 28:28 : 28 "Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles. They will also listen."
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
  • Gal 3:8 : 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 3:15-19
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    15while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

    16For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn't all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

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

    18To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

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

  • Heb 4:1-5
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    1Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.

    2For 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.

    3For 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.

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

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

  • Heb 4:7-11
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    7he 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."

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

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

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

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

  • Heb 3:10-12
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    10Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, 'They always err in their heart, But they didn't know my ways;'

    11As I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

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

  • Heb 3:7-8
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    75%

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

    8Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

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

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

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

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

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

    6and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

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

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

    3how 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;

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

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

  • Num 14:22-23
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    22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

    23surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:

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

  • Heb 9:8
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    8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;

  • Heb 12:25
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    25See 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,

  • Heb 8:7
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    7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

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

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

  • Heb 10:26
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    26For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

  • Jude 1:5
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    5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.

  • Rom 11:30
    69%

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

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

  • Isa 28:12
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    12to whom he said, This is the rest, give you rest to him who is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

  • Heb 12:17
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    17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

  • Heb 11:6
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    6Without 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.

  • Num 32:11
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    11Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:

  • Ps 106:24
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    24Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,

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