Hebrews 4:9
7 God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
10 For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.
11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- KJV
- There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
- WEB
- There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- ASV
- There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.
- DARBY
- There remains then a sabbatism to the people of God.
- BLB
- So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- ÅB
- Altså står det en sabbatshelg tilbake for Guds folk.
- OTB
- Som et resultat er en sabbatshvile fortsatt tilgjengelig for Guds folk.
- B1930
- Altså står det en sabbatshelg tilbake for Guds folk.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Read in contextRevelation 21:4
‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
Read in contextRevelation 7:14–17
“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Read in contextIsaiah 11:10
On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
Read in contextHebrews 3:11
So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
Read in contextHebrews 4:3
Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
Read in contextHebrews 11:25
He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
Read in contextHebrews 4:1
Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.
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