Hebrews 4:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

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  • Heb 12:15 : 15 looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
  • Heb 4:9 : 9 there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,
  • Prov 28:14 : 14 O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.
  • Rom 3:3-4 : 3 for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless? 4 let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'
  • Heb 4:11 : 11 May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,
  • Heb 4:3-5 : 3 for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world, 4 for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh `day' thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;' 5 and in this `place' again, `If they shall enter into My rest -- ;'
  • Heb 13:7 : 7 Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who `speaketh' from heaven,
  • Rom 3:23 : 23 for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God --
  • Rom 11:20 : 20 by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;
  • 1 Cor 9:26-27 : 26 I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air; 27 but I chastise my body, and bring `it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.
  • 1 Cor 10:12 : 12 so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.
  • 2 Tim 2:13 : 13 if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.
  • Heb 2:1-3 : 1 Because of this it behoveth `us' more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside, 2 for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense, 3 how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving -- to be spoken through the Lord -- by those having heard was confirmed to us,
  • Heb 3:11 : 11 so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- !')
  • Matt 7:21-23 : 21 `Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things? 23 and then I will acknowledge to them, that -- I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.
  • Matt 7:26-27 : 26 `And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; 27 and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'
  • Luke 12:45-46 : 45 `And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken; 46 the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for `him', and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.
  • Luke 13:25-30 : 25 from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are, 26 then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach; 27 and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness. 28 `There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without; 29 and they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall recline in the reign of God, 30 and lo, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.'
  • Matt 24:48-25:3 : 48 `And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come, 49 and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken, 50 the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know, 51 and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth. 1 `Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; 2 and five of them were prudent, and five foolish; 3 they who were foolish having taken their lamps, did not take with themselves oil;
  • Jer 32:40 : 40 and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me;
  • Num 14:34 : 34 by the number of the days `in' which ye spied the land, forty days, -- a day for a year, a day for a year -- ye do bear your iniquities, forty years, and ye have known my breaking off;
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 `Therefore -- the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel -- I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.
  • Prov 14:16 : 16 The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.

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  • Heb 4:2-11
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    2for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

    3for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

    4for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh `day' thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

    5and in this `place' again, `If they shall enter into My rest -- ;'

    6since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --

    7again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

    8for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;

    9there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

    10for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

    11May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

  • Heb 3:11-15
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    11so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- !')

    12See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

    13but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

    14for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

    15in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

  • Heb 3:18-19
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    76%

    18and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --

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

  • Heb 2:1-3
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    1Because of this it behoveth `us' more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside,

    2for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

    3how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving -- to be spoken through the Lord -- by those having heard was confirmed to us,

  • Heb 10:31
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    31fearful `is' the falling into the hands of a living God.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.

  • Heb 12:14-15
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    14peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

    15looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

  • Heb 4:16
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    16we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace -- for seasonable help.

  • Heb 3:7
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    7Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear --

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

  • Ps 95:11
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    11Where I sware in Mine anger, `If they come in unto My rest -- !'

  • Heb 12:28
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    28wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

  • Deut 12:9
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    9for ye have not come in hitherto unto the rest, and unto the inheritance, which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

  • Heb 6:11-12
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    11and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,

    12that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

  • Heb 10:23-25
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    23may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful `is' He who did promise),

    24and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

    25not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain `is', but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

  • Heb 4:14
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    14Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession,

  • Heb 11:39-40
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    39and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

    40God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

  • Gal 4:11
    69%

    11I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40see, therefore, it may not come upon you that hath been spoken in the prophets:

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,

  • Heb 10:27
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    27but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

  • Heb 13:6
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    6so that we do boldly say, `The Lord `is' to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

  • Josh 22:24
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    24`And if not, from fear of `this' thing we have done it, saying, Hereafter your sons do speak to ours sons, saying, What to you and to Jehovah God of Israel?

  • 1 Thess 5:6
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    6so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

  • Deut 1:29
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    29`And I say unto you, Be not terrified, nor be afraid of them;

  • Heb 10:36
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    36for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

  • Heb 12:25
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    25See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who `speaketh' from heaven,

  • 2 John 1:8
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    8See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;

  • Heb 10:19
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    19Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,