Hebrews 4:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Hebrews 4:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 95:11
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Matthew 11:28-29
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. …
1 Peter 1:20
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Isaiah 28:12
To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

Topics

Ablution Anger Assurance Atheism Atonement Believing Blessing Conversion

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

Here, I. The apostle declares that our privileges by Christ under the gospel are not only as great, but greater than those enjoyed under the Mosaic law. He specifies this, that we have a promise left us of entering into his rest; that is, of entering into a covenant-relation to Christ, and a state of communion with God through Christ, and of growing up therein, till we are made perfect in glory. W…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. For--justifying his assertion of the need of “faith,” He 4:2. we which have believed--we who at Christ’s coming shall be found to have believed. do enter--that is, are to enter: so two of the oldest manuscripts and Lucifer and the old Latin. Two other oldest manuscripts read, “Let us enter.” into rest--Greek, “into the rest” which is promised in the ninety-fifth Psalm. as he said--God’s saying…