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Hebrews 4:11Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:15Heb 4:9Prov 28:141 Cor 9:26-27Heb 4:111 Cor 10:12Heb 13:7Heb 4:3-5Rom 11:202 Tim 2:13
Hebrews 4:22For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 2:13Rom 10:16-17Heb 11:6Heb 3:18-191 Tim 4:8Acts 13:46Jas 1:211 Cor 13:3Heb 3:12Heb 4:6
Hebrews 4:33For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest! ’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 95:11Matt 11:28-291 Pet 1:20Eph 1:4Gen 1:31Heb 9:26Heb 3:11Isa 28:12Jer 6:16Exod 20:11
Hebrews 4:44For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 20:11Exod 31:17Gen 2:1-2
Hebrews 4:55but to repeat the text cited earlier: “They will never enter my rest! ”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 95:11Heb 3:11Heb 4:3
Hebrews 4:66Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:43Heb 3:18-19Acts 13:46-47Acts 28:28Heb 4:2Matt 22:9-10Gal 3:8Heb 4:9Isa 65:15Luke 14:21-24
Hebrews 4:77So God again ordains a certain day, “Today,” speaking through David after so long a time, as in the words quoted before, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 95:7Heb 3:7-8Heb 3:152 Sam 23:1-2Matt 22:43
Hebrews 4:88For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 1:15Josh 22:4Deut 12:9Heb 11:13-15Josh 23:1Acts 7:45Ps 78:55Deut 25:19Ps 105:44
Hebrews 4:99Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:10Rev 21:4Rev 7:14-17Heb 3:11Isa 11:10Heb 4:3Heb 11:25Heb 4:1Isa 60:19-20Matt 1:21
Hebrews 4:1010For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 14:13Heb 4:3-41 Pet 4:1-2John 19:30Heb 10:12Heb 1:3
Hebrews 4:1111Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 11:28-30Luke 13:24Heb 3:18-4:1Eph 5:6Heb 6:112 Pet 1:10-11Heb 3:12Phil 2:12Titus 1:16Acts 26:19
Hebrews 4:1212For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 23:29Isa 55:11Eph 6:17Ps 119:1301 Pet 1:23Isa 49:2Rev 1:161 Thess 2:13Jer 17:10Rom 1:16
Hebrews 4:1313And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 4:5Ps 33:13-15Prov 15:3Eccl 12:141 Sam 16:7Jer 17:102 Cor 5:10Job 34:21Prov 15:11Ps 44:21
Hebrews 4:1414Therefore since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 9:24Heb 12:2Heb 10:23Heb 9:12Heb 6:20Eph 4:10Heb 2:17-3:1Heb 8:1Rom 8:34Heb 10:12
Hebrews 4:1515For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 2:17-182 Cor 5:21Isa 53:4-51 John 3:51 Pet 2:22Phil 2:7-8Heb 7:26Heb 4:14Matt 8:16-17Heb 5:2
Hebrews 4:1616Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 3:12Heb 7:25Heb 10:19-23Heb 13:6Phil 4:6-7Isa 55:6-7Eph 2:181 Pet 2:10Matt 7:7-112 Cor 12:8-10
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