Hebrews 4:1

Therefore let us be on our guard lest perhaps, while He still leaves us a promise of being admitted to His rest, some one of you should be found to have fallen short of it.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

In Context

2For Good News has been brought to us as truly as to them; but the message they heard failed to benefit them, because they were not one in faith with those who gave heed to it.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:21"Not every one who says to me, `Master, Master,' will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens, but only those who are obedient to my Father who is in Heaven.

Matthew 24:48But if the man, being a bad servant, should say in his heart, `My master is a long time in coming,'

Luke 13:25As soon as the Master of the house shall have risen and shut the door, and you have begun to stand outside and knock at the door and say, "`Sir, open the door for us' --"`I do not know you,' He answers; `you are no friends of mine.'

Romans 3:23for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short of the glory of God,

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 4:1

The apostle, having in the foregoing chapter set forth the sin and punishment of the ancient Jews, proceeds in this, I. To declare that our privileges by Christ under the gospel exceed the privileges of the Jewish church under Moses, as a reason why we should make a right improvement of them, ver. 1-4 . II. He assigns the cause why the ancient Hebrews did not profit by their religious privileges, ver. 2 . Then, III. Confirms the privileges of those who believe, and the misery of those who continue in unbelief,… Read the whole commentary →

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