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Hebrews 4:1-5
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4 Therefore, since the promise of entering His rest remains, let us fear lest any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For the gospel was preached to us as well as to them. But the word preached did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith in those who heard it. 3 For we who have believed have entered this rest, as He has said,

“As I have sworn in My wrath,
    ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”[a]

However, His works have been finished since the creation of the world. 4 For He spoke somewhere about the seventh day like this: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works.”[b] 5 And again in the present passage He said, “They shall not enter My rest.”[c]

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  1. Hebrews 4:3 Ps 95:11.
  2. Hebrews 4:4 Ge 2:2.
  3. Hebrews 4:5 Ps 95:11.
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Hebrews 4:1-5
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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,

“As I swore in my anger,
‘They will never enter[f] into my rest.’”[g]

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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  1. Hebrews 4:1 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“remains”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Hebrews 4:2 Literally “for we are also having had the good news proclaimed”
  3. Hebrews 4:2 Literally “of hearing”
  4. Hebrews 4:2 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“united”) which is understood as causal
  5. Hebrews 4:3 Some manuscripts have “that rest”
  6. Hebrews 4:3 Literally “if they will enter”
  7. Hebrews 4:3 A quotation from Ps 95:11
  8. Hebrews 4:4 A quotation from Gen 2:2
  9. Hebrews 4:5 Literally “if they will enter”
  10. Hebrews 4:5 A quotation from Ps 95:11
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