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But those of us who trust God do enjoy his special place of rest. This is what God said:

‘Because I was very angry with them, I promised this:
“They will never arrive in my special place of rest.” ’[a]

God said that, even though he had finished his work when he made the world. In the Bible God has spoken about the seventh day like this:

‘God rested from all his work on the seventh day.’[b]

As we have already seen, God said something later about his rest:

‘They will never arrive in my special place of rest.’

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Footnotes

  1. 4:3 See Psalms 95:11.
  2. 4:4 See Genesis 2:2.

Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

“So I declared on oath in my anger,
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”[a](A)

And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”[b](B) And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:3 Psalm 95:11; also in verse 5
  2. Hebrews 4:4 Gen. 2:2