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

There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

But this I say, brothers, the time is short; for the rest, let those that have wives be as though they had none;

Some

I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen; for the Lord GOD shall slay thee and call his slaves by another name.

Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a people bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Go ye therefore into the entrances of the highways and call as many as ye shall find to the marriage.

So that slave came and showed his lord these things. Then the husband of the house, being angry, said to his slave, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the halt and the blind.

Then Paul and Barnabas speaking with freedom, said, It was necessary indeed that the word of God should first have been spoken to you; but seeing ye put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

Be it known, therefore, unto you that this saving health of God is sent unto the Gentiles and that they will hear it.

They

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them, but it did not profit those that heard the word without mixing it with faith.

So we see that they could not enter in because of their unbelief.

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, evangelized Abraham in advance, saying, In thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed.

Entered

And to whom he swore that they should not enter into his rest, but to those that disobeyed?

General references

And he did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.