Hebrews 3:11

While in my wrath I swore – “They will never enter upon my rest.”’

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

10Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, and I said – “Their hearts are always straying; they have never learned my ways”;

12Be careful, friends, that there is never found in anyone of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by that person separating themselves from the living God.

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Cross References

Psalms 95:11So I solemnly swore to them in my anger, that never would they enter my place of rest.”

Hebrews 4:3Upon that rest we who have believed are now entering. As God has said – ‘In my wrath I swore – “They will never enter upon my rest;”’ Although God’s work was finished at the creation of the world;

Hebrews 4:9There is, then, a Sabbath rest still awaiting God’s people.

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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