Tree of Life Version
Hebrews 4:9
9So there remains a Shabbat rest for the people of God.
Hebrews 4:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
- New International Version (NIV)There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;
- English Standard Version (ESV)So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
- New King James Version (NKJV)There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
Context of Hebrews 4:9
7Again, God appoints a certain day—“Today”—saying through David after so long a time, just as it has been said before, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” 8For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So there remains a Shabbat rest for the people of God. 10For the one who has entered God’s rest has also ceased from his own work, just as God did from His. 11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall through the same pattern of disobedience.
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Cross-references for Hebrews 4:9
- Hebrews 4:1Let us fear then! Though a promise of entering His rest is left open, some of you would seem to have fallen short.
- Hebrews 3:11As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’”
- Isaiah 11:10It will also come about in that day that the root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek for Him, and His resting place will be glorious.
- Isaiah 57:2He enters into shalom. They rest on their beds, each who walked in his integrity.
- Isaiah 60:19No more will the sun be your light by day, nor the glow of the moon be your light, but Adonai will be your everlasting light, and your God for your glory.
- Revelation 7:14Then he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- Revelation 21:4He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more. Nor shall there be mourning or crying or pain any longer, for the former things have passed away.”
- Hebrews 11:25Instead he chose to suffer mistreatment along with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.
- Psalms 47:9God reigns over the nations. God sits upon His holy throne.
- Matthew 1:21She will give birth to a son; and you shall call His name Yeshua, for He will save His people from their sins.”
- 1 Peter 2:10Once you were “not a people,” but now you are “God’s people.” You were shown “no mercy,” but now you have been shown “mercy.”
Commentaries on Hebrews 4:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9There, remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God - It was not, The rest of the Sabbath; it was not, The rest in the promised land, for the psalmist wrote long after the days of Joshua; therefore there is another rest, a state of blessedness, for the people of God; and this is the Gospel, the blessings it procures and communicates, and the eternal glory which it prepares for, and has promised to, genuine believers. There are two words in this chapter…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9There remaineth, therefore, a rest - This is the conclusion to which the apostle comes. The meaning is this, that according to the Scriptures there is “now” a promise of rest made to the people of God. It did not pertain merely to those who were called to go to the promised land, nor to those who lived in the time of David, but it is “still” true that the promise of rest pertains to “all” the people of God of every generation. The “reasoning” by which the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9a Sabbath rest: The sacrifice of Jesus worked like a Day of Atonement sacrifice (Hebrews 5:1–3; 9:13–22; see Leviticus 23:26–28, 32). Through Christ's sacrifice, God's promised rest is available to his people.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. therefore--because God "speaks of another day" (see on He 4:8). remaineth--still to be realized hereafter by the "some (who) must enter therein" (He 4:6), that is, "the people of God," the true Israel who shall enter into God's rest ("My rest," He 4:3). God's rest was a Sabbatism; so also will ours be. a rest--Greek, "Sabbatism." In time there are many Sabbaths, but then there shall be the enjoyment and keeping of a Sabbath-rest: one perfect and…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hebrews 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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