Entering Gods Rest

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. — read the full passage →

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus; — read the full passage →

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. — read the full passage →

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn’t all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. — read the full passage →

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. — read the full passage →

don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. — read the full passage →

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. — read the full passage →

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; — read the full passage →

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus; — read the full passage →

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. — read the full passage →

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.”

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, — read the full passage →

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

I heard the voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. — read the full passage →

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. — read the full passage →