Hebrews 4:6

New Century Version

It is still true that some people will enter God’s rest, but those who first heard the way to be saved did not enter, because they did not obey.

Cross References

Matthew 21:43

“So I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to people who do the things God wants in his kingdom.

Hebrews 4:2

The Good News was preached to us just as it was to them. But the teaching they heard did not help them, because they heard it but did not accept it with faith.

Acts 28:28

“I want you to know that God has also sent his salvation to all nations, and they will listen!” [

Hebrews 4:9

This shows that the rest for God’s people is still coming.

Galatians 3:8

The Scriptures, telling what would happen in the future, said that God would make the non-Jewish people right through their faith. This Good News was told to Abraham beforehand, as the Scripture says: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

Isaiah 65:15

Your names will be like curses to my servants, and the Lord God will put you to death. But he will call his servants by another name.

Numbers 14:31

You said that your children would be taken away, but I will bring them into the land to enjoy what you refused.

Numbers 14:12

I will give them a terrible sickness and get rid of them. But I will make you into a great nation that will be stronger than they are.”

1 Corinthians 7:29

Brothers and sisters, this is what I mean: We do not have much time left. So starting now, those who have wives should live as if they had no wives.

Hebrews 4:11

Let us try as hard as we can to enter God’s rest so that no one will fail by following the example of those who refused to obey.