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Hebrews 4:1
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Hebrews 4:1
1LET us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
1¶ Let vs therefore feare, lest a promise being left vs, of entring into his rest, any of you should seeme to come short of it.
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Hebrews 4:1
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Alarm or dread; reverent awe; as a verb, to be afraid, revere, or cause fear.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An assurance or pledge that something will be done or given; as a verb, to give such an assurance or pledge.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Departed from, allowed to remain, or abandoned.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Coming or going in; flowing in; piercing; penetrating; setting down in writing; enlisting; engaging.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Repose, relief, or cessation from labour; also what remains.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One, some, or every member or amount of an indefinite number or quantity, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To appear, be regarded, or be fitting.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Brief or limited in length, time, amount, or reach; lacking what is required.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
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Open the full verse study9There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
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Open the full verse study14Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
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Open the full verse study26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
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Open the full verse study11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
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Open the full verse study12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
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Open the full verse study7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
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Open the full verse study3For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
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Open the full verse study20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
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Open the full verse study13If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
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Open the full verse study1THEREFORE we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
3How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
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Open the full verse study34After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
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Open the full verse study23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
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Open the full verse study40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
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Open the full verse study26And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
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Open the full verse study21¶ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
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Open the full verse study25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
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Open the full verse study11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
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Open the full verse study3For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
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Open the full verse study30Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
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Open the full verse study45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
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Open the full verse study25When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
26Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
27But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
28There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
29And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
30And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.
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Open the full verse study16A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
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