For we who have believed enter into rest,[a] just as he has said,

“As I swore in my anger,
They will never enter[b] into my rest.’”[c]

And yet these works have been accomplished from the foundation of the world. For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”[d] and in this passage again, ‘They will never enter[e] into my rest.’”[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:3 Some manuscripts have “that rest”
  2. Hebrews 4:3 Literally “if they will enter”
  3. Hebrews 4:3 A quotation from Ps 95:11
  4. Hebrews 4:4 A quotation from Gen 2:2
  5. Hebrews 4:5 Literally “if they will enter”
  6. Hebrews 4:5 A quotation from Ps 95:11