Hebrews 3:11

As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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Cross References

Numbers 14:25Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

Numbers 14:35I, the LORD, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

Deuteronomy 1:34The LORD heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying,

Psalms 95:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

Hebrews 4:3For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Hebrews 4:9There remains therefore 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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