Hebrews 4 — Greek text and reception
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Chapter 4
The remaining promise of rest
Verse 4:1
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
Therefore let us fear, lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any of you should seem to have fallen short.
Textual & Reception Notes
Verse 4:2
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
For we too have received good news just as they did, but the word they heard did not benefit them, because they had not been united by faith with those who heard.
Textual & Reception Notes
Text [G]: The participle is masculine plural, describing the hearers, not singular describing the word. Not united by faith with those who heard follows that actual construction.
Verse 4:3
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
For we who believed enter rest, just as He has said, “As I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall certainly not enter My rest,’” although the works came into being from the foundation of the world.
Textual & Reception Notes
Text [G]: NA28 reads εἰς [τὴν] κατάπαυσιν with the article in brackets (SBLGNT anarthrous); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read "enter the rest".
Verse 4:4
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
For He has said somewhere about the seventh day in this way, “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works.”
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Verse 4:5
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And in this passage again, “They shall certainly not enter My rest.”
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Verse 4:6
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
Since, then, it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,
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Verse 4:7
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
He again appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying in David after so long a time, just as has been said before, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
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Verse 4:8
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken after these things about another day.
Textual & Reception Notes
Iēsous is rendered Joshua in the wilderness/rest argument. It is the same Greek name used for Jesus elsewhere; the referent determines the familiar English form.
Verse 4:9
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
So then, a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.
Textual & Reception Notes
Sabbatismos, Sabbath rest, is distinct from the repeated katapausis, rest. Neither word is replaced with a modern calendar rule.
Verse 4:10
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
For the one who entered His rest also himself rested from his works, just as God did from His own.
Textual & Reception Notes
The one who entered is kept generic; an interpretation specifically referring to Christ is not inserted as a name.
Verse 4:11
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience.
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The living word and the great high priest
Verse 4:12
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrows, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Textual & Reception Notes
The penetrating/dividing images are retained without turning the clause into an exhaustive taxonomy of human components.
Verse 4:13
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And no created thing is hidden before Him, but all things are naked and laid open to His eyes, to whom we must give account.
Textual & Reception Notes
Laid open renders the neck/exposure image of trachēlizō. To whom we must give account represents the concise with whom is our account expression.
Verse 4:14
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
Therefore, having a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession.
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Verse 4:15
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
For we do not have a high priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One tested in all things according to our likeness, without sin.
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Verse 4:16
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help.
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