Hebrews 4:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³ Now we who have believed [will someday] enter that rest, even as God has said [Psa. 95:11], “So, I vowed in my anger, ‘They will not enter a state of rest with me,’” although God’s works were completed since the creation of the world.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For we who have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on God) do enter that rest, in accordance with His declaration that those [who did not believe] should not enter when He said, As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest; and this He said although [His] works had been completed and prepared [and waiting for all who would believe] from the foundation of the world. [Ps. 95:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For 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.

Common English Bible

³ We who have faith are entering the rest. As God said, “And because of my anger I swore: ” “They will never enter into my rest!” And yet God’s works were completed at the foundation of the world.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For we who have believed shall enter into rest, in the same manner as he said: "So it is as I have sworn in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!" And certainly, this is when the works from the foundation of the world have been finished.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For we, who have believed, shall enter into rest; as he said: As I have sworn in my wrath; If they shall enter into my rest; and this indeed when the works from the foundation of the world were finished.

Hebrews 4:3 Cross References

Matthew 13:35

[This was] so that what was spoken by the prophet would be fulfilled, when he said [Psa. 78:2], “I will open my mouth [to speak] with parables. I will say things that have been hidden from the beginning of time.”

Matthew 25:34

Then the King will say to those at His right side, ‘You who are blessed by my Father, come and receive the kingdom which has been prepared for you since the creation of the world,

Ephesians 1:4

Even before the creation of the world God chose us, who are in [fellowship with] Christ, to be dedicated [to Him] and to be without just blame in His sight. Out of love

Hebrews 3:11

So I vowed in my anger, ‘They will not enter a state of rest with me.’”

Hebrews 3:14

For we have become sharers with Christ, if we hold firmly onto the confidence [we had in Him] from the beginning until the end [of our lives].

Hebrews 9:26

For then He would have had to suffer often since the creation of the world; but now at the end of the ages [i.e., the final period of world history] He has been revealed once [for all] to remove sin by sacrificing Himself.

1 Peter 1:20

For Christ was previously known [by God, even] before the world was created, yet was not fully revealed for your benefit until [these] final times.