Hebrews 4:6

American Standard Version (1901)

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 3:18-19 : 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient? 19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
  • Heb 4:2 : 2 For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.
  • Heb 4:9 : 9 There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.
  • Num 14:12 : 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
  • Num 14:31 : 31 But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
  • Isa 65:15 : 15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen; and the Lord Jehovah will slay thee; and he will call his servants by another name:
  • Matt 21:43 : 43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken away from you, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
  • Matt 22:9-9 : 9 Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast. 10 And those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests.
  • Luke 14:21-24 : 21 And the servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor and maimed and blind and lame. 22 And the servant said, Lord, what thou didst command is done, and yet there is room. 23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain [them] to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I say unto you, that none of those men that were bidden shall taste of my supper.
  • Acts 13:46-47 : 46 And Paul and Barnabas spake out boldly, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, [saying], I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, That thou shouldest be for salvation unto the uttermost part of the earth.
  • Acts 28:28 : 28 Be it known therefore unto you, that this salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles: they will also hear.
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;
  • Gal 3:8 : 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all the nations be blessed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 3:15-19
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    85%

    15while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

    16For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?

    17And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient?

    19And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

  • Heb 4:1-5
    5 verses
    84%

    1Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

    2For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.

    3For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

    4For he hath said somewhere of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;

    5and in this [place] again, They shall not enter into my rest.

  • Heb 4:7-11
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    82%

    7he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before), To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.

    8For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

    9There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.

    10For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

    11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

  • Heb 3:10-12
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    77%

    10Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;

    11As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

    12Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:

  • Heb 3:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,

    8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

  • Ps 95:11
    73%

    11Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.

  • Heb 11:39-40
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    73%

    39And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,

    40God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • Heb 6:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

    5and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

    6and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

  • Heb 2:1-3
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    71%

    1Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away [from them] .

    2For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

    3how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

  • Rom 10:16
    71%

    16But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

  • Heb 6:12
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    12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  • Num 14:22-23
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    70%

    22because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

    23surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:

  • Heb 10:36
    69%

    36For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

  • Heb 9:8
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    8the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;

  • Heb 12:25
    69%

    25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven:

  • Heb 8:7
    69%

    7For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.

  • Rom 3:3
    69%

    3For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?

  • Rom 15:21
    69%

    21but, as it is written, They shall see, to whom no tidings of him came, And they who have not heard shall understand.

  • Heb 10:26
    69%

    26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,

  • Jude 1:5
    69%

    5Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

  • Rom 11:30
    69%

    30For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

  • Heb 5:11
    69%

    11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

  • Isa 28:12
    69%

    12to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

  • Heb 6:17
    69%

    17Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

  • Heb 12:17
    69%

    17For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father], though he sought it diligently with tears.

  • Heb 11:6
    68%

    6And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him] ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

  • Num 32:11
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    11Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:

  • Ps 106:24
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    24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word,

  • Heb 11:13
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    13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.