Hebrews 4:3

for we do enter into the rest — we who did believe, as He said, 'So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest — ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

In Context

2for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

4for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh [day] thus: 'And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

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Cross References

Genesis 1:31And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning — day the sixth.

Psalms 95:11Where I sware in Mine anger, 'If they come in unto My rest — !'

Jeremiah 6:16Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where [is] this — the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, 'We do not go.'

Matthew 13:35that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, 'I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

Ephesians 1:4according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

Hebrews 3:14for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 4:2-11

Gospel Privileges; Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 1 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. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of… Read the whole commentary →

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