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We who have put our trust in God go into His rest. God said this of our early fathers, “I was angry and said, ‘They will not go into My rest.’”(A) And yet God’s work was finished after He made the world.

God’s Rest

In the Holy Writings He said this about the seventh day when He made the whole world, “God rested on the seventh day from all He had made.” (B) But God said this about those who turned against Him, “They will not go into My rest.” (C)

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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