But in the other passage God said, “They will never enter my place of rest.”
Parallel translations
- WEB and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.”
- KJV And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
- BSB And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”
- NKJV and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”
- NASB and again in this passage, “They certainly shall not enter My rest.”
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Quick answer
Scripture also says the unbelieving will not enter God's rest. The same rest from which some are excluded is the one believers are invited to share.
Overview
By again quoting Psalm 95, the author links God's creation rest with the rest withheld from the unbelieving generation. The juxtaposition shows that God's rest remains available and that entry depends on faith. This sets up the conclusion that a rest still remains open to be entered.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Ps 95:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
- Heb 4:3For 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.
- Heb 3:11as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”
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