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Hebrews 4 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Heb 4:1 - Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.

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Heb 4:2 - For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.[fn]

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Heb 4:3 - For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,
“As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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Heb 4:4 - For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”

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Heb 4:5 - And again in this passage he said,
“They shall not enter my rest.”

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Heb 4:6 - Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,

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Heb 4:7 - again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”

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Heb 4:8 - For if Joshua had given them rest, God[fn] would not have spoken of another day later on.

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Heb 4:9 - So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,

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Heb 4:10 - for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.

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Heb 4:11 - Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

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Heb 4:12 - For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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Heb 4:13 - And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Jesus the Great High Priest

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Heb 4:14 - Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

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Heb 4:15 - For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

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Heb 4:16 - Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

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(4:2)

Some manuscripts it did not meet with faith in the hearers

(4:8)

Greek he

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