Hebrews 3:11

so that I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10Therefore I was disgusted with that generation, and said: This is a people, whose heart wandereth, and they have not known my ways:

12Beware, therefore, my brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart that believeth not, and ye depart from the living God.

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Cross References

Hebrews 4:3But we, who have believed, do enter into rest. But as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, that they shall not enter into my rest: for lo, the works of God existed from the foundation of the world.

Hebrews 4:9Therefore it is established, that the people of God are to have a sabbath.

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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