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Heb. 4:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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There remaineth therefore a βrest to the people of God.

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or, keeping of a sabbath.

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remaineth.

Heb. 4:1,3• ¹Let us therefore fear lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you might seem to have failed of it.
³For we that believed enter into the rest, even as he hath said, As I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest, although the works were done from the world's foundation. (Heb. 4:1,3)

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Heb. 3:11• ¹¹as I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest. (Heb. 3:11)

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Isa. 11:10• (Isa. 11:10)

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Isa. 57:2• (Isa. 57:2)

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Isa. 60:19‑20• (Isa. 60:19‑20)

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Rev. 7:14‑17• ¹⁴And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
¹⁵Therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he that sitteth on the throne shall tabernacle over them.
¹⁶They shall hunger no more neither thirst any more nor in any wise shall the sun fall upon them nor any heat.
¹⁷For the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall tend them and shall lead them to fountains of waters of life, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. (Rev. 7:14‑17)

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Rev. 21:4• ⁴And [God] shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, and no mourning nor crying nor pain shall be any more: for the first things have passed away. (Rev. 21:4)

rest.

or, keeping of a sabbath.

people.

Heb. 11:25• ²⁵choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to have temporary pleasure of sin, (Heb. 11:25)

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Psa. 47:9• (Psa. 47:9)

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Matt. 1:21• ²¹{i}And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.{/i} (Matt. 1:21)

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Titus 2:14• ¹⁴who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works. (Titus 2:14)

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1 Peter 2:10• ¹⁰who once [were] no people but now God's people, the unpitied, but now pitied. (1 Peter 2:10)

• it is wholly future; it remains for His people, whether for those above or for those below. For Christ is the Heir of all things, and we are joint-heirs with Him. All things in heaven and all things on earth are to be under Him, not in title only by personal exaltation at God's right-hand, but by actual possession in indisputable and acknowledged power when He reigns on His own throne. Such is the rest of God, as His word presents it (“Hebrews 4:3-10” by W. Kelly)

• The state of the people was worse than the rest that Joshua gave them; which, as their own psalms prove, was no rest at all. (“Hebrews 4” by J.N. Darby)

• In chapter 4 the rest of God {is} left vague in its character, in order to embrace both the heavenly part and the earthly part of our Lord’s millennial reign. (“Hebrews 6” by J.N. Darby)

• The great truth is established that, whether it be God’s heavenly rest for a heavenly people or God’s earthly rest for an earthly people, the rest is still future. (“The Rest to Which the Wilderness Leads: Hebrews 4:1-11” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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There remains then a sabbatism to the people of God.

W. Kelly Translation

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There remaineth therefore a sabbatism for the people of God.