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Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still holds and is offered [today], let us be afraid [[a]to distrust it], lest any of you should [b]think he has come too late and has come short of [reaching] it.

For indeed we have had the glad tidings [Gospel of God] proclaimed to us just as truly as they [the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came to them]; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith (with [c]the leaning of the entire personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) by those who heard it; [d]neither were they united in faith with the ones [Joshua and Caleb] who heard (did believe).

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:1 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Hebrews 4:1 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  3. Hebrews 4:2 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
  4. Hebrews 4:2 Many manuscripts so read.

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