11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, 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. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
"Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
Therefore, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. For thus will be richly supplied to you the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing 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.