Hebrews 4:1

Since the promise of entering God's rest still stands, believers should fear lest any fall short of it. The danger of missing the rest remains a present concern.

Cross-references · 24

• Heb 12:15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
• Prov 28:14Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
• Heb 4:9There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
• Heb 4:11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
• 1 Cor 9:26–27I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
• 1 Cor 10:12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
• Heb 13:7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
• Rom 11:20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
• Heb 4:3–5For 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.
• Rom 3:23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
• 2 Tim 2:13If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
• Num 14:34After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
• Heb 2:1–3Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
• Jer 32:40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
• Matt 7:26–27And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
• Matt 7:21–23Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
• Heb 3:11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
• Rom 3:3–4For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
• Heb 12:25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
• Prov 14:16A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
• Luke 12:45–46But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
• 1 Sam 2:30Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
• Luke 13:25–30When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
• Matt 24:48But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

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