A Rest for the People of God
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Therefore, as j the Holy Spirit says:
k "Today, if you will hear His voice,
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Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
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Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
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Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, 'They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.'
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So I swore in My wrath,
'They shall not enter My rest.' "
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Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
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but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
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while it is said:
l "Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
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m For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?
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Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, n whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
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And o to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?
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So we see that they could not enter in because of p unbelief.
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Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, a let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
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For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
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For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:
b "So I swore in My wrath,
'They shall not enter My rest,' "
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
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For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: c "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works";
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and again in this place: d "They shall not enter My rest."
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Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,
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again He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after such a long time, as it has been said:
e "Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts."
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For if Joshua had f given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.
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There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
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For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
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g Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
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For the word of God is h living and powerful, and i sharper than any j two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is k a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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l And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are m naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
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Cross References
Acts 1:16
Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.
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Cross References
Psalms 95:7 - 11
For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice:
Hebrews 3:15
While it is said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
Hebrews 4:7
Again He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after such a long time, as it has been said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.
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Psalms 95:7
For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice:
Psalms 95:8
Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness.
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Cross References
Numbers 14:2
And all the children of Israel complained again...
Numbers 14:11
Then the LORD said to Moses: "How long will the...
Numbers 14:30
Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshu...
Deuteronomy 1:35
Surely not one of these men of this evil genera...
Deuteronomy 1:36
'except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall se...
Deuteronomy 1:38
Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, h...
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Cross References
Numbers 14:22
Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice.
Numbers 14:23
They certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.
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Numbers 14:30
Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.
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Numbers 14:1 - 39
So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
1 Corinthians 10:11
Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
1 Corinthians 10:12
Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
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Cross References
2 Corinthians 6:1
We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
Galatians 5:4
You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
Hebrews 12:15
Looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled.
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Cross References
Psalms 95:11
So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'
Hebrews 3:11
So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'
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Cross References
Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Exodus 20:11
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Exodus 31:17
'It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.'"
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Cross References
Psalms 95:11
So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.
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Psalms 95:7
For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice:
Psalms 95:8
Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness.
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Cross References
Joshua 22:4
And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brethren, as He promised them; now therefore, return and go to your tents and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
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2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble.
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Psalms 147:15
He sends out His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly.
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Isaiah 49:2
And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, And made Me a polished shaft; In His quiver He has hidden Me.
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Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Revelation 2:12
And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write, 'These things says He who has the sharp two-edged sword:
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John 12:48
He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him - the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
1 Corinthians 14:24
But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all.
1 Corinthians 14:25
And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:9
"For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars."
Psalms 33:13 - 15
The LORD looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men.
Psalms 90:8
You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
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Cross References
Job 26:6
Sheol is naked before Him, And Destruction has no covering.
Proverbs 15:11
Hell and Destruction are before the LORD; So how much more the hearts of the sons of men.
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