Hebrews 4:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.”
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“For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hebrews 4:8 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 12:9For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 25:19When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
- Joshua 1:15until the LORD gives them rest as He has done for you, and your brothers also possess the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you may return to the land of your inheritance and take possession of that which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the east side of the Jordan.”
- Joshua 22:4And now that the LORD your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them, you may return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you across the Jordan.
- Joshua 23:1A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,
- 1 Chronicles 7:27Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
- Psalms 78:55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- Psalms 105:44He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
- Acts 7:45And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
- Hebrews 11:13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
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