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We who have believed are able to enter and have God’s rest. As God has said,

“So I was angry and made a promise.
    ‘They will never enter my land of rest.’” Psalm 95:11

But God’s work was finished from the time he made the world. Somewhere in the Scriptures he talked about the seventh day of the week: “And on the seventh day God rested from all his work.”[a] And again in the Scripture God said, “They will never enter my land of rest.”

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Footnotes

  1. 4:4 “And . . . work.” Quotation from Genesis 2:2.

Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

“So I declared on oath in my anger,
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”[a](A)

And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”[b](B) And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:3 Psalm 95:11; also in verse 5
  2. Hebrews 4:4 Gen. 2:2