Hebrews 4:3

for 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,

Literal Standard Version

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 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,

4for He spoke in a certain place concerning the seventh [day] thus: “And God rested in the seventh day from all His works”;

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Cross References

Genesis 1:31And God sees all that He has done, and behold, [it is] very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—the sixth day.

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

Jeremiah 6:16Thus said YHWH: “Stand by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, || Where [is] this—the good way? And go in it, || And find rest for yourselves. And they say, We do not go.

Matthew 13:35that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open in allegories My mouth, || I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Ephesians 1:4according as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

Hebrews 3:14for we have become partakers of the Christ, if we may hold fast the confidence [we had] at the beginning to 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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