Hebrews 4:10

Revised Standard Version

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

Parallel Translations

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.

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

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.

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.)

English Standard Version
for whoever has entered God's rest has 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.

English Revised Version
For he that is entered into his rest hath 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Contextual Overview

¹ Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it. ² For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers. ³ For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. ⁴ For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works." ⁵ And again in this place he said, "They shall never enter my rest." ⁶ Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, ⁷ again he sets a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, "Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts." ⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later of another day. ⁹ So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God; ¹⁰ for whoever enters God's rest also ceases from his labors as God did 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
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I ate."

Genesis 4:9
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"

Genesis 4:10
And the LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

Genesis 9:5
For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every man's brother I will require the life of man.

Genesis 18:20
Then the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomor'rah is great and their sin is very grave,

Exodus 3:7
Then the LORD said, "I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings,

Numbers 35:33
You shall not thus pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

Joshua 7:19
Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and render praise to him; and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me."

2 Kings 9:26
'As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons--says the LORD--I will requite you on this plot of ground.' Now therefore take him up and cast him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD."

Job 16:18
"O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.

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.