There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
Parallel translations
- WEB There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- KJV There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
- NKJV There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
- NASB Consequently, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- NLT So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God.
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Therefore a Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God. A deeper, abiding rest awaits believers.
Overview
The author draws his conclusion: there remains 'a Sabbath rest,' a sharing in God's own rest, for His people. Christians have understood this rest as the salvation enjoyed now in part through Christ and consummated fully in the life to come. It is the goal toward which the believer presses by faith.
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- 1 Pet 2:10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
- Rev 21:4‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
- Rev 7:14–17“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- Heb 3:11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
- Isa 11:10On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
- Heb 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
- Heb 11:25He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
- Heb 4:1Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Matt 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- Isa 60:19–20No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.
- Isa 57:2Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.
- Ps 47:9The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.
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