Hebrews 4:9

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[So] then, a Sabbath “rest day” [still] remains for God’s people [i.e., for Christians, in heaven].

Cross References

Matthew 1:21

She is going to have a son and you should name Him Jesus, for He is the One who will save His people from their sins.”

Titus 2:14

He gave Himself up for us, to buy us back from [enslavement to] all [kinds of] wickedness and to purify for Himself a group of people who belong to Him and who are eager to do good deeds.

Hebrews 11:25

but chose rather to suffer mistreatment with God’s people [i.e., the Israelites] than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a brief time.

Hebrews 3:11

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

Hebrews 4:1

So, as long as God’s promise of entering into a state of rest with Him [still] remains, we should fear that someone among you will appear [in the end] to have fallen short of [attaining] it. [Note: In this section “entering into rest” refers to Israel entering Canaan (verses 6, 8) and to Christians entering heaven (verses 3, 9) . The “Sabbath day rest” is presented as a type of both].

Hebrews 4:10

For the person who has entered into a state of rest with God has rested from his own work also, just as God rested from His.

Hebrews 4:3

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.

Hebrews 4:8

For if Joshua had given the Israelites rest, God would not have spoken about another day later on [i.e., “Today” in Psa. 95:7].

1 Peter 2:10

At one time you [Gentiles] were not a [chosen] people, but now you are God’s [special] people. Once you had not received [His] mercy, but now you have received it.

Revelation 14:13

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write [this]: Those who are [now] dead, who died in [fellowship with] the Lord, are blessed from now on. Yes, says the Holy Spirit, they will rest from their work, for [the record of] their deeds will follow them [i.e., into the next life].”

Revelation 21:4

And He will wipe away all the tears from their eyes, and there will not be death anymore, or mourning, or crying, or pain anymore, for these old things have passed away.”