"So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) {They...: Gr. If they shall enter}" — Hebrews 3:11

Hebrews 3:11 · KJV

“So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) {They...: Gr. If they shall enter}”

— Hebrews 3:11

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in {their} heart; and they have not known my ways.

Verse 12

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

Hebrews 3 — Context

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in {their} heart; and they have not known my ways.

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) {They...: Gr. If they shall enter}

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:34-35

And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

Hebrews 4:3

For 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.

Numbers 14:20-23

And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, {was} thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them. {brook: or, valley}

Numbers 14:35

I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

Numbers 32:10-13

And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,

Hebrews 4:5

And in this {place} again, If they shall enter into my rest.

Numbers 14:27-30

How long {shall I bear with} this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.