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Hebrews 4:3

Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

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ASV

For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

KJV

For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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28 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ΕἰσερχόμεθαEiserchomethaWe enterG1525 →
γὰρgarforG1063 →
εἰςeisintoG1519 →
τὴνtēntheG3588 →
κατάπαυσινkatapausinrestG2663 →
οἱhoithoseG3588 →
πιστεύσαντεςpisteusanteshaving believedG4100 →
καθὼςkathōseven asG2531 →
εἴρηκεν·eirēkenHe has said:G2046 →
ὡςhōsSoG5613 →
ὤμοσαōmosaI sworeG3660 →
ἐνeninG1722 →
τῇtēatheG3588 →
ὀργῇorgēawrathG3709 →
μου·mouof mine;G3165 →
εἰeiNotG1487 →
εἰσελεύσονταιeiseleusontaiwill they enterG1525 →
εἰςeisintoG1519 →
τὴνtēntheG3588 →
κατάπαυσίνkatapausinrestG2663 →
μου·mouof Mine;G3165 →
καίτοιkaitoiand yetG2532 →G5104 →
τῶνtōntheG3588 →
ἔργωνergōnworksG2041 →
ἀπὸapofromG575 →
καταβολῆςkatabolēs[the] foundationG2602 →
κόσμουkosmouof [the] worldG2889 →
γενηθέντων.genēthentōnhave been finished.G1096 →

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Psalms 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”Matthew 11:28–29Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Isaiah 14:24The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.1 Peter 1:20He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.Hebrews 4:9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.Ephesians 1:4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In loveMatthew 25:34Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.Hebrews 9:26Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.Genesis 1:31And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.Jeremiah 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’Isaiah 28:12to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.Hebrews 3:11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”Matthew 13:35So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”Exodus 20:11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.Hebrews 3:14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.Romans 5:1–2Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,Genesis 2:1Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—

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