Hebrews 4:1 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹ Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged 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

A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool throws off restraint and is careless.

Proverbs 28:14

Blessed is the man who fears the Lord always; but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

Jeremiah 32:40

I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, 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 servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’

Acts 3:19

Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Romans 11:20

That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.

Romans 3:23

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

1 Corinthians 10:12

Therefore let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

2 Corinthians 6:1

Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 5:4

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

2 Timothy 2:13

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

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one fail to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” spring up and cause trouble, and by it the many become defiled;

Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.

Hebrews 13:7

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

Hebrews 3:11

As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”

Hebrews 4:11

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.

Hebrews 4:9

So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God;

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me for ever’; 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 lightly esteemed.