11 Let us therefore use diligence to enter into that rest, that no one may fall after the same example of not hearkening to the word.
Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and *I* will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls; for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from [the] living God.
They profess to know God, but in works deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.
Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision;
Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall; for thus shall the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ be richly furnished unto you.
But we desire earnestly that each one of you shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end;
So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
For as indeed *ye* [also] once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of *these*; so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that *they* also may be objects of mercy. For God hath shut up together all in unbelief, in order that he might shew mercy to all.
The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.
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Commentary on Hebrews 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
The apostle, having in the foregoing chapter set forth the sin and punishment of the ancient Jews, proceeds in this,
Hbr 4:1-10
Here,
Hbr 4:11-16
In this latter part of the chapter the apostle concludes, first, with a serious repeated exhortation, and then with proper and powerful motives.