These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Hebrews 4
Brit Hadashah 16 verses
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Therefore let us be on our guard lest perhaps, while He still leaves us a promise of being admitted to His rest, some one of you should be found to have fallen short of it.
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Hebrews 12:15 Proverbs 28:14 Hebrews 4:9 Hebrews 13:7 Hebrews 4:11 Romans 3:3-4 Hebrews 4:3-5 2 Timothy 2:13 1 Corinthians 9:26-27 Hebrews 12:25 Romans 11:20 Luke 13:25-30 Luke 12:45-46 Matthew 7:21-23 Matthew 7:26-27 1 Corinthians 10:12 Romans 3:23 Hebrews 2:1-3 Hebrews 3:11 1 Samuel 2:30 Numbers 14:34 Matthew 24:48 Jeremiah 32:40 Proverbs 14:16 - 2 For Good News has been brought to us as truly as to them; but the message they heard failed to benefit them, because they were not one in with those who gave heed to it.
- 3 We who have believed are soon to be admitted to the true rest; as He has said, “As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest,” although Elohim’s works had been going on ever since the creation of the world.
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For, as we , when speaking of the seventh day He has used the words, “And rested on the seventh day from all His works;”
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and He has also declared, “They shall not be admitted to My rest.”
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- 6 Since, then, it is still true that some will be admitted to that rest, and that because of disobedience those who formerly had Good News proclaimed to them were not admitted,
- 7 He again definitely mentions a certain day, “To-day,” saying long afterwards, by David’s lips, in the words already quoted, “To-day, if you His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
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For if had given them the true rest, we should not afterwards speaking of another still future day.
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- 9 It follows that there still remains a rest for the people of .
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For He who has been admitted to His rest, has rested from His works as did from His.
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- 11 Let it then be our earnest endeavour to be admitted to that rest, so that no one may perish through following the same example of unbelief.
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For Elohim’s Message is full of life and power, and is keener than the sharpest two-edged sword. It pierces even to the severance of from , and penetrates between the joints and the marrow, and it can discern the secret thoughts and purposes of the .
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Jeremiah 23:29 Ephesians 6:17 Isaiah 55:11 Isaiah 49:2 1 Peter 1:23 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Romans 1:16 Revelation 1:16 Psalm 119:130 1 Corinthians 14:24-25 Revelation 19:15 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 1 Thessalonians 5:23 1 Peter 2:4-5 John 6:51 Revelation 20:4 Acts 4:31 Revelation 2:23 Revelation 2:16 Revelation 19:21 Psalm 149:6 Psalm 139:2 Hebrews 13:7 Ephesians 5:13 Luke 8:11 Psalm 45:3 Jeremiah 17:10 Proverbs 5:4 James 1:18 Isaiah 11:4 2 Corinthians 2:17 Acts 2:37 Ecclesiastes 12:11 Psalm 110:2 1 Corinthians 1:24 2 Corinthians 4:2 Acts 5:33 -
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And no created thing is able to escape its scrutiny; but everything lies bare and completely exposed before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
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Psalm 33:13-15 1 Corinthians 4:5 Proverbs 15:3 Jeremiah 17:10 Ecclesiastes 12:14 Job 34:21 Job 26:6 Psalm 90:8 Revelation 2:23 Proverbs 15:11 1 Samuel 16:7 Psalm 44:21 Romans 2:16 2 Corinthians 5:10 1 Chronicles 28:9 2 Chronicles 6:30 Romans 14:9-12 2 Chronicles 16:9 Psalm 7:9 Revelation 20:11-15 Job 38:17 Matthew 7:21-22 John 21:17 Jeremiah 17:23-24 Matthew 25:31-32 John 5:22-29 Acts 17:31 Psalm 139:11-12 John 2:24 - 14 Inasmuch, then, as we have in , the Son of , a great High Priest who has passed into Heaven itself, let us hold firmly to our profession of .
- 15 For we have not a High Priest who is unable to feel for us in our weaknesses, but one who was tempted in every respect just as we are tempted, and yet did not sin.
- 16 Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of , that we may receive and find to help us in our times of need.