From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been suffering violence, and the violent have been seizing it by force.
Hebrews 4:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Let us, then, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness fell]. American Standard Version (1901) Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience. Common English Bible Therefore, let’s make every effort to enter that rest so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience, Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, let us hasten to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall into the same example of unbelief. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let us hasten therefore to enter into that rest; lest any man fall into the same example of unbelief. |
From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been suffering violence, and the violent have been seizing it by force.
‘Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.
‘Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able to
‘The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urgently invited to enter it.
Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal of approval on him.’
‘So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient.
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.
Therefore, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, so now, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
They claim to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?
Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,
Now we desire each of you to demonstrate the same diligence for the full assurance of your hope until the end,
After returning to Joshua they reported to him, ‘Don’t send all the people, but send about two thousand or three thousand men to attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, don’t wear out all our people there.’
and if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;