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 carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
• Prov 28:14Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
• Heb 4:9There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
• Heb 4:11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
• 1 Cor 9:26–27I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
• 1 Cor 10:12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
• Heb 13:7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
• Rom 11:20True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
• Heb 4:3–5For 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.
• Rom 3:23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
• 2 Tim 2:13If we are faithless, he remains faithful. For he can’t deny himself.”
• Num 14:34After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
• Heb 2:1–3Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
• Jer 32:40and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
• Matt 7:26–27Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
• Matt 7:21–23Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• Heb 3:11as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”
• Rom 3:3–4For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
• Heb 12:25See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
• Prov 14:16A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
• Luke 12:45–46But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
• 1 Sam 2:30“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.
• Luke 13:25–30When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
• Matt 24:48But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

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