Hebrews 3:18

Or to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, if not to those who disobeyed?

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

In Context

17And with whom was He[F] angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

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

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Cross References

Hebrews 3:11So I took an oath in my wrath, ‘As if they will ever enter my rest!’”

Hebrews 4:6Therefore since it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had the Good News proclaimed to them did not enter because of disobedience,

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 3:8-19

Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you… Read the whole commentary →

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