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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.” And in this passage it says, “They will never enter into my rest.”

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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.’”[a](A)

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.”[b](B) And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:3 Psalm 95:11; also in verse 5
  2. Hebrews 4:4 Gen. 2:2