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Hebrews 4:1

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¶ Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Let us {G5399} therefore {G3767} fear {G5399}, lest {G3379}, a promise {G1860} being left {G2641} us of entering {G1525} into {G1519} his {G846} rest {G2663}, any {G5100} of {G1537} you {G5216} should seem {G1380} to come short of it {G5302}.

Therefore, let us be terrified of the possibility that, even though the promise of entering his rest remains, any one of you might be judged to have fallen short of it;

Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.

Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

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Cross-References

  • Hebrews 12:15 (10 votes)

    Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;

  • Hebrews 4:11 (9 votes)

    ¶ Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

  • Hebrews 4:9 (9 votes)

    There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

  • Proverbs 28:14 (8 votes)

    ¶ Happy [is] the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

  • Hebrews 4:3 (7 votes)

    For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

  • Hebrews 4:5 (7 votes)

    And in this [place] again, If they shall enter into my rest.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:26 (6 votes)

    I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: