Hebrews 3:18

And to whom did he swear that they should never enter into his rest, if not to those who had proved faithless? So you see that it was through unbelief that they were not able to enter in.

Montgomery New Testament

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

17And with whom was he grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

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Cross References

Hebrews 3:11So I swore in my wrath, "They shall never enter into my rest."

Hebrews 4:6Since, then, it remains that some should enter into it, and since those who formerly had the Good News preached to them did not enter 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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