For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.”
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you
for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”
to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear.
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
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