Hebrews 4:3

New Century Version

We who have believed are able to enter and have God’s rest. As God has said, “I was angry and made a promise, ‘They will never enter my rest.’ ” But God’s work was finished from the time he made the world.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.

Psalm 95:11

I was angry and made a promise, ‘They will never enter my rest.’ ”

Exodus 20:11

The reason is that in six days the Lord made everything—the sky, the earth, the sea, and everything in them. On the seventh day he rested. So the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Isaiah 28:12

God said to them, “Here is a place of rest; let the tired people come and rest. This is the place of peace.” But the people would not listen.

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the Lord says: “Stand where the roads cross and look. Ask where the old way is, where the good way is, and walk on it. If you do, you will find rest for yourselves. But they have said, ‘We will not walk on the good way.’

Ezekiel 20:38

I will get rid of those who refuse to obey me and who turn against me. I will bring them out of the land where they are now living, but they will never enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Matthew 13:35

This is as the prophet said: “I will speak using stories; I will tell things that have been secret since the world was made.”

Matthew 25:34

“Then the King will say to the people on his right, ‘Come, my Father has given you his blessing. Receive the kingdom God has prepared for you since the world was made.

Ephesians 1:4

That is, in Christ, he chose us before the world was made so that we would be his holy people—people without blame before him.

Hebrews 3:11

I was angry and made a promise, ‘They will never enter my rest.’ ”

Hebrews 3:14

We all share in Christ if we keep till the end the sure faith we had in the beginning.

Hebrews 9:26

Then he would have had to suffer many times since the world was made. But Christ came only once and for all time at just the right time to take away all sin by sacrificing himself.

1 Peter 1:20

Christ was chosen before the world was made, but he was shown to the world in these last times for your sake.