Hebrews 3:18

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

King James Version

In Context

17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:11And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

Numbers 14:30Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 1:26Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:

Deuteronomy 9:23Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

Hebrews 3:11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

Hebrews 4:6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

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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