Hebrews 4

1Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.Cross-references: Num 14:34 · 1Sam 2:30 · Prov 14:16 · Prov 28:14 · Jer 32:40 · Matt 7:21 · +18 more

2For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.Cross-references: Acts 3:26 · Acts 13:46 · Rom 2:25 · Rom 10:16 · 1Cor 13:3 · Gal 3:8 · +11 more

3For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.Cross-references: Gen 1:31 · Ex 20:11 · Ps 95:11 · Isa 28:12 · Jer 6:16 · Matt 11:28 · +7 more

4For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”Cross-references: Gen 2:1 · Ex 20:11 · Ex 31:17 · Heb 2:6

5and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.”Cross-references: Ps 95:11 · Heb 3:11 · Heb 4:3

6Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,Cross-references: Num 14:12 · Num 14:31 · Isa 65:15 · Matt 21:43 · Matt 22:9 · Luke 14:21 · +7 more

7he again defines a certain day, “today”, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”Cross-references: 2Sam 23:1 · 1Ki 6:1 · Ps 95:7 · Matt 22:43 · Mark 12:36 · Luke 20:42 · +6 more

8For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.Cross-references: Deut 12:9 · Deut 25:19 · Josh 1:15 · Josh 22:4 · Josh 23:1 · Ps 78:55 · +3 more

9There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.Cross-references: Ps 47:9 · Isa 11:10 · Isa 57:2 · Isa 60:19 · Matt 1:21 · Titus 2:14 · +7 more

10For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.Cross-references: John 19:30 · Heb 1:3 · Heb 4:3 · Heb 10:12 · 1Pet 4:1 · Rev 14:13

11Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.Cross-references: Matt 7:13 · Matt 11:12 · Matt 11:28 · Luke 13:24 · Luke 16:16 · John 6:27 · +12 more

12For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.Cross-references: Ps 45:3 · Ps 110:2 · Ps 119:130 · Ps 139:2 · Ps 149:6 · Prov 5:4 · +31 more

13There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:7 · 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 6:30 · 2Chr 16:9 · Job 26:6 · Job 34:21 · +23 more

14Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.Cross-references: Mark 1:1 · Mark 16:19 · Luke 24:51 · Acts 1:11 · Acts 3:21 · Rom 8:34 · +15 more

15For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.Cross-references: Ex 23:9 · Isa 53:4 · Isa 53:9 · Hos 11:8 · Matt 8:16 · Matt 12:20 · +11 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

16Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.Cross-references: Ex 25:17 · Lev 16:2 · 1Chr 28:11 · Isa 27:11 · Isa 55:6 · Matt 7:7 · +11 more