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Hebrews 4:3

Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said:

“So I swore on oath in My anger,

‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

Hebrews 4:3 BSB
  1. a Psalms 95:11; also in verse 5

Hebrews 4:3 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 95:11 (23 votes) and Matthew 11:28–29 (14 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 1 to 1 Peter 1.

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Which verses does Hebrews 4:3 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Psalm 95:1123 votes

    So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”

  2. Matthew 11:28–2914 votes

    Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

  3. 1 Peter 1:2010 votes

    He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.

  4. Ephesians 1:48 votes

    For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

  5. Genesis 1:317 votes

    And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

  6. Hebrews 9:267 votes

    Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

  7. Isaiah 28:126 votes

    to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.

  8. Jeremiah 6:166 votes

    This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

  9. Hebrews 3:116 votes

    So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

  10. Exodus 20:115 votes

    For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

  11. Matthew 13:355 votes
  12. Romans 5:1–23 votes
  13. Hebrews 3:143 votes

    We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.

Which verses point to Hebrews 4:3?

The 10 strongest of 20.