There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Parallel translations
- WEB There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- BSB There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for 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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Quick answer
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 2:10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- Rev 21:4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
- Rev 7:14–17And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- Heb 3:11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
- Isa 11:10And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
- Heb 4:3For 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.
- Heb 11:25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
- Heb 4:1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
- Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
- Matt 1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
- Isa 60:19–20The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
- Isa 57:2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
- Ps 47:9The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
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