Hebrews 4:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for 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,

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;
  • 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;
  • Heb 4:6 : 6 since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --
  • Heb 11:6 : 6 and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.
  • Jas 1:21 : 21 wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,
  • Heb 3:18-19 : 18 and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? -- 19 and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
  • 2 Thess 2:12-13 : 12 that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness. 13 And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,
  • Acts 3:26 : 26 to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'
  • Acts 13:46 : 46 And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;
  • Rom 2:25 : 25 For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.
  • Rom 10:16-17 : 16 But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, `Lord, who did give credence to our report?' 17 so then the faith `is' by a report, and the report through a saying of God,
  • 1 Cor 13:3 : 3 and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.
  • Gal 3:8 : 8 and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --
  • Gal 4:13 : 13 and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,
  • 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 4:5-6
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    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 --

  • Heb 4:1
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    1We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

  • Rom 10:16-18
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    75%

    16But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, `Lord, who did give credence to our report?'

    17so then the faith `is' by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

    18but I say, Did they not hear? yes, indeed -- `to all the earth their voice went forth, and to the ends of the habitable world their sayings.'

  • Heb 4:3
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    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,

  • 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.

  • Heb 3:18-19
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    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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    72%

    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 4:10-11
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    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,

  • Rom 10:14
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    14How then shall they call upon `him' in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe `on him' of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

  • Rom 15:21
    71%

    21but according as it hath been written, `To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'

  • Heb 11:2
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    2for in this were the elders testified of;

  • Rom 3:3
    70%

    3for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?

  • Jas 2:14
    70%

    14What `is' the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

  • 1 Pet 4:6
    70%

    6for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

  • Rom 9:30
    69%

    30What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that `is' of faith,

  • 1 Thess 1:5
    69%

    5because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

  • 2 Tim 2:14
    69%

    14These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

  • Rom 10:8
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    8But what doth it say? `Nigh thee is the saying -- in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;

  • Jas 2:17
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    17so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

  • Rom 4:14
    68%

    14for if they who are of law `are' heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;

  • Mark 4:17
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    17and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.

  • Heb 6:4-5
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    4for `it is' impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit,

    5and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age,

  • 2 Cor 4:3
    68%

    3and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed,

  • Heb 13:9
    68%

    9with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for `it is' good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

  • 2 Cor 4:13
    68%

    13And having the same spirit of the faith, according to that which hath been written, `I believed, therefore I did speak;' we also do believe, therefore also do we speak;

  • 1 Thess 2:13
    68%

    13Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

  • Isa 28:12
    68%

    12Unto whom He hath said, `This `is' the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this -- the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear,

  • Mark 4:12
    67%

    12that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.'

  • Gal 3:4-5
    2 verses
    67%

    4so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.

    5He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the hearing of faith `is it'?

  • Matt 13:14
    67%

    14and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

  • Heb 3:7
    67%

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

  • Acts 14:7
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    7and there they were proclaiming good news.

  • Heb 3:15
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    15in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

  • Heb 3:12
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    12See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

  • 2 Cor 10:14
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    14for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,

  • Heb 5:11
    67%

    11concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,

  • Heb 11:13
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    13In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

  • Rom 11:30
    67%

    30for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these:

  • Acts 28:26
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    26saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,