Hebrews 4:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should seem to have failed to reach it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THEREFORE, WHILE the promise of entering His rest still holds and is offered [today], let us be afraid [to distrust it], lest any of you should think he has come too late and has come short of [reaching] it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Let 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.

Common English Bible

¹ Therefore, since the promise that we can enter into rest is still open, let’s be careful so that none of you will appear to miss it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Therefore, we should be afraid, lest the promise of entering into his rest may be relinquished, and some of you may be judged to be lacking.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Let us fear therefore lest the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting.

Hebrews 4:1 Cross References

Proverbs 14:16

The wise are cautious and turn away from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is careless.

Proverbs 28:14

Happy is the one who is never without fear, but one who is hard-hearted will fall into calamity.

Jeremiah 32:40

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them, and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me.

Numbers 14:34

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’

Matthew 24:48

But if that wicked slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’

Acts 3:19

Repent, therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out,

Romans 11:20

That is true. They were broken off on account of unbelief, but you stand on account of belief. So do not become arrogant, but be afraid.

Romans 3:23

since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

1 Corinthians 10:12

So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall.

2 Corinthians 6:1

As we work together with him, we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 5:4

You who want to be reckoned as righteous by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

2 Timothy 2:13

if we are faithless, he remains faithful— he cannot deny himself.

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.

Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking, for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Hebrews 3:11

As in my anger I swore, ‘They will not enter my rest.’ ”

Hebrews 4:11

Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall through such disobedience as theirs.

Hebrews 4:9

So then, a Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God,

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever, but now the Lord declares: Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.