Hebrews 3:18

And to whom did God swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

In Context

17Now with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were not able to enter.

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Cross References

Hebrews 3:11As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall never enter my rest!’”

Hebrews 4:6Therefore, since God's rest remains open for some to enter, and those who formerly received good news did not enter because of their disobedience,

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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