Hebrews 4:4 For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: "On the seventh day God rested from all his works."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: "On the seventh day God rested from all his works."

English Standard Version
For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”

New American Standard Bible
For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: "AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS";

King James Bible
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this way: And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.

International Standard Version
Somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day as follows: "On the seventh day God rested from all his actions,"

American Standard Version
For he hath said somewhere of the seventh day on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

Darby Bible Translation
For he has said somewhere of the seventh day thus, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works:

Young's Literal Translation
for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day thus: 'And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

Cross References

Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Exodus 20:11
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: why the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Deuteronomy 5:14
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates; that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.

Hebrews 2:6
But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit him?

Hebrews 4:10
For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:1-10 The privileges we have under the gospel, are greater than any had under the law of Moses, though the same gospel for substance was preached under both Testaments. There have been in all ages many unprofitable hearers; and unbelief is at the root of all unfruitfulness under the word. Faith in the hearer is the life of the word. But it is a painful consequence of partial neglect, and of a loose and wavering profession, that they often cause men to seem to come short. Let us then give diligence, that we may have a clear entrance into the kingdom of God. As God finished his work, and then rested from it, so he will cause those who believe, to finish their work, and then to enjoy their rest. It is evident, that there is a more spiritual and excellent sabbath remaining for the people of God, than that of the seventh day, or that into which Joshua led the Jews. This rest is, a rest of grace, and comfort, and holiness, in the gospel state. And a rest in glory, where the people of God shall enjoy the end of their faith, and the object of all their desires. The rest, or sabbatism, which is the subject of the apostle's reasoning, and as to which he concludes that it remains to be enjoyed, is undoubtedly the heavenly rest, which remains to the people of God, and is opposed to a state of labour and trouble in this world. It is the rest they shall obtain when the Lord Jesus shall appear from heaven. But those who do not believe, shall never enter into this spiritual rest, either of grace here or glory hereafter. God has always declared man's rest to be in him, and his love to be the only real happiness of the soul; and faith in his promises, through his Son, to be the only way of entering that rest.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4. he spake—God (Ge 2:2).

God did rest the seventh day—a rest not ending with the seventh day, but beginning then and still continuing, into which believers shall hereafter enter. God's rest is not a rest necessitated by fatigue, nor consisting in idleness, but is that upholding and governing of which creation was the beginning [Alford]. Hence Moses records the end of each of the first six days, but not of the seventh.

from all his works—Hebrew, Ge 2:2, "from all His work." God's "work" was one, comprehending, however, many "works."