For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because (A)they were not united by faith with those who listened.[a] For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

(B)“As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest,’”

although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: (C)“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:2 Some manuscripts it did not meet with faith in the hearers

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