Hebrews 4:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

It remaineth

Hebrews 4:9

1 Corinthians 7:29

Some

Acts 28:28

They

Hebrews 4:2

Hebrews 3:19

Galatians 3:8

Entered

Hebrews 3:18

General references

Matthew 13:58

Bible References

It remaineth

So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

Some

I will smite them with

pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”

“You will leave your name for a curse to My chosen ones,
And the Lord God will slay you.
But My servants will be called by another name.

Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.

Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast.’

And the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the head of the household became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will also listen.”

They

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.

So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”

Entered

And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?

General references

And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.