Hebrews 3:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’””
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BSBPD
“So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--!')”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Hebrews 3:11 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 14:20“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
- Numbers 14:25Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
- Numbers 14:27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
- Numbers 14:35I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
- Numbers 32:10So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
- Deuteronomy 1:34When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
- Deuteronomy 2:14The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
- Psalms 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Hebrews 3:18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
- Hebrews 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
- Hebrews 4:5And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Hebrews 4:9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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