Hebrews 4:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Hebrews 4:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:10
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Revelation 7:14-17
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. …
Isaiah 11:10
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
Hebrews 3:11
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

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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. 9)

9. therefore--because God “speaks of another day” (see on He 4:8). remaineth--still to be realized hereafter by the “some (who) must enter therein” (He 4:6), that is, “the people of God,” the true Israel who shall enter into God’s rest (“My rest,” He 4:3). God’s rest was a Sabbatism; so also will ours be. a rest--Greek, “Sabbatism.” In time there are many Sabbaths, but then there shall be the enjo…