Consequently, there remains 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.
- BSB There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- NKJV There remains therefore a 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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Cross-references · 13
- 1 Pet 2:10who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- Rev 21:4He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
- Rev 7:14–17I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
- Heb 3:11as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”
- Isa 11:10It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
- 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 11:25choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
- Heb 4:1Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Matt 1:21She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
- Isa 60:19–20The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
- Isa 57:2He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
- Ps 47:9The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!
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