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For we too have received the good news just as they did, but the message they heard was of no benefit to them because those who listened did not combine it with faith. For we who have faith enter into that rest, just as God has said:

“Therefore, I swore in my anger,
    ‘They will never enter into my rest.’ ”

Yet God’s work had been finished at the beginning of the world. For somewhere he says in reference to the seventh day, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” Read full chapter

For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.[a](A) Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

“So I declared on oath in my anger,
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”[b](B)

And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”[c](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:2 Some manuscripts because those who heard did not combine it with faith
  2. Hebrews 4:3 Psalm 95:11; also in verse 5
  3. Hebrews 4:4 Gen. 2:2