Hebrews 4:2

A Conservative Version

For we also are having good-news preached, just as also those men, but the word of hearing did not benefit those men, not having been mixed together with faith in those who heard.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

Hebrews 11:6

And apart from faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and becomes a rewarder of those who search for him.

Hebrews 3:12

Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.

1 Timothy 4:8

For bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is coming.

Romans 2:25

For circumcision is indeed beneficial if thou perform law, but if thou are a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Acts 13:46

But having spoken boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken first to you, but since ye thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

James 1:21

Therefore having put off all filthiness and profusion of evil, receive with mildness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Hebrews 4:6

Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had good-news did not enter because of disobedience,

1 Corinthians 13:3

And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing.

1 Peter 1:12

To whom it was revealed, that they were serving not themselves, but you, those things that were now reported to you by those who preached good-news to you in Holy Spirit, which was sent forth from heaven, into which things heavenly

1 Thessalonians 1:5

because the good-news from us happened to you not in word only, but also in power, and in Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as ye know what kind of men we became among you, because of you.

Galatians 3:8

And the scripture having foreseen that God makes the Gentiles righteous from faith, proclaimed the good-news in advance to Abraham: In thee all the nations will be blessed.

Galatians 4:13

But ye know that through a weakness of the flesh I preached the good-news to you the first time.

Acts 3:26

To you first, having raised up his Boy Jesus, God sent him blessing you, in turning away each man from your evils.

Deuteronomy 1:32

Yet in this thing ye did not believe LORD your God,

Romans 3:3

For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the assurance of God ineffective?

Galatians 3:2

I only want to learn this from you. Did ye receive the Spirit from works of law, or from a listening ear of faith?