Hebrews 4:11
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter upon that rest, so that none of us fall through such disbelief as that of which we have had an example.
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In Context
10For the person who enters upon God’s rest do themselves rest after their work, just as God did.
Cross References
Matthew 7:13Go in by the small gate. The road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and many go in by it.
Matthew 11:28Come to me, all you who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest!
Luke 16:16The Law and the prophets sufficed until the time of John. Since then the good news of the kingdom of God has been told, and everybody has been forcing their way into it.
Acts 26:19After that, King Agrippa, I did not fail to obey the heavenly vision;
Ephesians 2:2For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the powers of the air – the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.
Philippians 2:12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.
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 →