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[L For] The ·Good News [Gospel] was preached to us just as it was to them. But the ·teaching [message; word] they heard did not help them, because they heard it but did not ·accept [combine; join] it with faith.[a] [L For; Now] We who have believed are able to enter ·and have God’s rest [L the rest]. As God has said,

“I was angry and ·made a promise [declared/swore an oath],
    ‘They will never enter my rest [Ps. 95:11].’”

But God’s work was finished from the ·time he made [foundation/creation of] the world. ·In the Scriptures [L For somewhere] he talked about the seventh day of the week: “And on the seventh day God rested from all his works [Gen. 2:2].”

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  1. Hebrews 4:2 because … faith Some Greek copies read “because they did not share the faith of those who heard it.”

For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.[a](A) 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.’”[b](B)

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.”[c](C)

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  1. Hebrews 4:2 Some manuscripts because those who heard did not combine it with faith
  2. Hebrews 4:3 Psalm 95:11; also in verse 5
  3. Hebrews 4:4 Gen. 2:2