Hebrews 4:1-5
Lexham English Bible
The Rest that Remains for the People of God
4 Therefore let us fear, while there[a] remains a promise of entering into his rest, that none of you appear to fall short of it. 2 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us[b], just as those also did, but the message they heard[c] did not benefit them, because they[d] were not united with those who heard it in faith. 3 For we who have believed enter into rest,[e] just as he has said,
And yet these works have been accomplished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”[h] 5 and in this passage again, ‘They will never enter[i] into my rest.’”[j]
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- Hebrews 4:1 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“remains”) which is understood as temporal
- Hebrews 4:2 Literally “for we are also having had the good news proclaimed”
- Hebrews 4:2 Literally “of hearing”
- Hebrews 4:2 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“united”) which is understood as causal
- Hebrews 4:3 Some manuscripts have “that rest”
- Hebrews 4:3 Literally “if they will enter”
- Hebrews 4:3 A quotation from Ps 95:11
- Hebrews 4:4 A quotation from Gen 2:2
- Hebrews 4:5 Literally “if they will enter”
- Hebrews 4:5 A quotation from Ps 95:11
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