Hebrews 3:11

so I swore in My anger, They will [not] enter into My rest.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

In Context

10for this reason I was grieved with that generation and said, They always go astray in [their] heart, and these have not known My ways;

12Watch out, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

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Cross References

Numbers 14:25And the Amalekite and the Canaanite are dwelling in the valley; tomorrow turn and journey for yourselves into the wilderness—the way of the Red Sea.”

Numbers 14:35I, YHWH, have spoken; if, nonetheless, I do this to all this evil congregation who are meeting against Me—they are consumed in this wilderness, and there they die.”

Deuteronomy 1:34And YHWH hears the voice of your words, and is angry, and swears, saying,

Psalms 95:11Where I swore in My anger, “If they come into My rest—!”

Hebrews 4:3for we enter into the rest—we who believed, as He said, “So I swore in My anger, They will [not] enter into My rest”; and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

Hebrews 4:9there remains, then, a Sabbath rest to the people of God,

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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