Hebrews 3:11

As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall never enter my rest!’”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10Therefore I was angry with that generation and said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.’

12Brothers, make sure that none of you has an evil heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

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Cross References

Hebrews 4:3For we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, God has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall never enter my rest!’” Now God's works have been finished from the foundation of the world.

Hebrews 4:9So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for 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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