Hebrews 4:3

For we who have believed enter that rest, as He has said: 1 “ So I swore in My wrath, 1 they shall not enter My rest,” Although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

In Context

2For indeed we have had the gospel preached to us just as those also; but the word which they heard did not profit those, not having been mixed with faith in those who heard it.

4For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day thus, “ And God rested on the seventh day from all His works;”

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Cross References

Matthew 13:35so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: 1 “ I will open My mouth in parables; 1 I will utter things having been hidden 1 from the foundation of the world.” 1 The Parable of the Tares Explained

Ephesians 1:4even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love,

Hebrews 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of the assurance firm until the end,

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 4:2-11

Gospel Privileges; Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of… Read the whole commentary →

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