Hebrews 4:10

Good News Translation

For those who receive that rest which God promised will rest from their own work, just as God rested from his.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the person who has entered his rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from his.

King James Version (1611)
For he that is entred into his rest, hee also hath ceased from his owne works, as God did from his.

King James Version
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

English Standard Version
for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.

New American Standard Bible
For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.

New Century Version
Anyone who enters God's rest will rest from his work as God did.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.

Legacy Standard Bible
For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.

Berean Standard Bible
For whoever enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.

Contemporary English Version
On that day God's people will rest from their work, just as God rested from his work.

Complete Jewish Bible
For the one who has enter ed God's rest has also rested from his own works , as God did from his.

Darby Translation
For he that has entered into his rest, he also has rested from his works, as God did from his own.

Easy-to-Read Version
God rested after he finished his work. So everyone who enters God's place of rest will also have rest from their own work just as God did.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For he that is entred into his rest, hath also ceased from his owne works, as God did from his.

George Lamsa Translation
For he who has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Lexham English Bible
For the one who has entered into his rest has also himself rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

Literal Translation
For he entering into His rest, he himself also rested from his works, as God had rested from His own. LXX-Psa. 95:11; Gen. 2:2

Amplified Bible
For the one who has once entered His rest has also rested from [the weariness and pain of] his [human] labors, just as God rested from [those labors uniquely] His own.

American Standard Version
For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Bible in Basic English
For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his.

Hebrew Names Version
For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

International Standard Version
For the one who enters God'shis">[fn] rest has himself rested from his own works, just as God diddid">[fn] from his.

Etheridge Translation
For he who is entered into his rest hath also reposed himself from his works, as Aloha (did) from his.

Murdock Translation
For he who had entered into his rest, hath also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he that is entred into his rest, hath ceassed also from his owne workes, as God [dyd] from his.

English Revised Version
For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

World English Bible
For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For he that hath entered into his rest, hath himself also ceased from his works, as God did from his.

Weymouth's New Testament
For He who has been admitted to His rest, has rested from His works as God did from His.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For he that is entrid in to his reste, restide of hise werkis, as also God of hise.

Update Bible Version
For he that has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he that hath entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his.)

New English Translation
For the one who enters God's rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

New King James Version
For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

New Living Translation
For all who have entered into God's rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.

New Life Bible
The man who goes into God's rest, rests from his own work the same as God rested from His work.

New Revised Standard
for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, he that hath entered into his rest, He too, hath rested from his works, just as, from his own, God, rested .

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he that is entered into his rest, the same also hath rested from his works, as God did from his.

Revised Standard Version
for whoever enters God's rest also ceases from his labors as God did from his.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For he yt is is entred into his rest doth cease from his awne workes as god did from his.

Young's Literal Translation
for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For he that is entred in to his rest, ceasseth from his workes, as God doth from his

Mace New Testament (1729)
then he that enters into divine rest, will indeed rest from his works, as God did from his.

Simplified Cowboy Version
All those cowboys who have finished the drive have been able to experience this rest, just like God did after creating the world.

Contextual Overview

¹ Now, God has offered us the promise that we may receive that rest he spoke about. Let us take care, then, that none of you will be found to have failed to receive that promised rest. ² For we have heard the Good News, just as they did. They heard the message, but it did them no good, because when they heard it, they did not accept it with faith. ³ We who believe, then, do receive that rest which God promised. It is just as he said, "I was angry and made a solemn promise: ‘They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest!'" He said this even though his work had been finished from the time he created the world. ⁴ For somewhere in the Scriptures this is said about the seventh day: "God rested on the seventh day from all his work." ⁵ This same matter is spoken of again: "They will never enter that land where I would have given them rest." ⁶ Those who first heard the Good News did not receive that rest, because they did not believe. There are, then, others who are allowed to receive it. ⁷ This is shown by the fact that God sets another day, which is called "Today." Many years later he spoke of it through David in the scripture already quoted: "If you hear God's voice today, do not be stubborn." ⁸ If Joshua had given the people the rest that God had promised, God would not have spoken later about another day. ⁹ As it is, however, there still remains for God's people a rest like God's resting on the seventh day. ¹⁰ For those who receive that rest which God promised will rest from their own work, just as God rested from his.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he that: Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 10:12, Revelation 14:13

hath: John 19:30, 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 4:2

as: Hebrews 4:3, Hebrews 4:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 31:17 - six days Leviticus 16:29 - do no Ezekiel 46:1 - on the sabbath

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
The Lord God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it."

Genesis 4:9
The Lord asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" He answered, "I don't know. Am I supposed to take care of my brother?"

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "Why have you done this terrible thing? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground, like a voice calling for revenge.

Genesis 9:5
If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life.

Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said to Abraham, "There are terrible accusations against Sodom and Gomorrah, and their sin is very great.

Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have seen how cruelly my people are being treated in Egypt; I have heard them cry out to be rescued from their slave drivers. I know all about their sufferings,

Numbers 35:33
If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.

Joshua 7:19
Joshua said to him, "My son, tell the truth here before the Lord , the God of Israel, and confess. Tell me now what you have done. Don't try to hide it from me."

2 Kings 9:26
‘I saw the murder of Naboth and his sons yesterday. And I promise that I will punish you here in this same field.' So take Joram's body," Jehu ordered his aide, "and throw it in the field that belonged to Naboth, so as to fulfill the Lord 's promise."

Job 16:18
O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me! Don't let my call for justice be silenced!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he that is entered into his rest, c] This is to be understood not of believers, nor of their entrance into the Gospel rest, or into eternal rest, but of the Lord Jesus Christ for a single person is only spoken of, and not many, as in Hebrews 4:3 and the rest entered into is his own, which cannot be said of any other; and besides, a comparison is run between his entrance into rest, and ceasing from his works, and God's resting the seventh day, and ceasing from his, which can only agree with him; and besides, Christ is immediately spoken of, and at large described in Hebrews 4:12. Now he entered into his rest, not when he was laid in the grave, but when he rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God, as having done his work; and this is the ground and foundation of the saints' rest under the Gospel dispensation; for these words are a reason of the former, as appears by the causal particle "for": and now being at rest,

he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his; Christ had works to do, as preaching the Gospel, performing miracles, and obtaining the redemption and salvation of his people: these were given him to do, and he undertook them, and he has finished them; and so ceases from them, as never to repeat them more; they being done effectually, stand in no need of it; and so as to take delight and complacency in them; the pleasure of the Lord prospering in, his hand, the effects of his labour answering his designs; just as God ceased from the works of creation, when he had finished them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he that is entered into rest - That is, the man who is so happy as to reach heaven, will enjoy a rest similar to what God had when he finished the work of creation. It will be:

(1)A cessation from toil; and,

(2)It will be a rest similar to that of God - the same kind of enjoyment, the same freedom from care, anxiety, and labor.

How happy then are they who have entered into heaven! Their toils are over. Their labors are done. Never again will they know fatigue. Never more will they feel anxious care. Let us learn then:

(1) Not to mourn improperly for those who have left us and gone to heaven. Happy in the rest of God, why should not we rejoice? Why wish them back again in a world of toil!

(2) Let us in our toils look forward to the world of rest. Our labors will all be over. The weary man will lay down his burden; the exhausted frame will know fatigue no more. Rest is sweet at night after the toils of day; how much more sweet will it be in heaven after the toils of life! Let us.

(3) Labor while is is called today. Soon we shall cease from our work. All that we have to do is to be done soon. We shall soon cease from “our” work as God did from his. What we have to do for the salvation of children, brothers, sisters, friends, and for the world, is to be done soon. From the abodes of bliss we shall not be sent forth to speak to our kindred of the blessedness of that world, or to admonish our friends to escape from the place of despair. The pastor will not come again to warn and invite his people; the parent will not come again to tell his children of the Saviour and of heaven; the neighbor will not come to admonish his neighbor; compare Luke 16:24-29. We shall all have ceased from our work as God did from his; and never again shall we speak to a living friend to invite him to heaven.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 4:10. For he that is entered into his rest — The man who has believed in Christ Jesus has entered into his rest; the state of happiness which he has provided, and which is the forerunner of eternal glory.

Hath ceased from his own works — No longer depends on the observance of Mosaic rites and ceremonies for his justification and final happiness. He rests from all these works of the law as fully as God has rested from his works of creation.

Those who restrain the word rest to the signification of eternal glory, say, that ceasing from our own works relates to the sufferings, tribulations, afflictions, c., of this life as in Revelation 14:13. I understand it as including both.

In speaking of the Sabbath, as typifying a state of blessedness in the other world, the apostle follows the opinions of the Jews of his own and after times. The phrase שבת עלאה ושבת התאה shabbath illaah, veshabbath tethaah, the sabbath above, and the sabbath below, is common among the Jewish writers; and they think that where the plural number is used, as in Leviticus 19:30: Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, that the lower and higher sabbaths are intended, and that the one is prefigured by the other. See many examples in Schoettgen.