11 May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,
`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls, for my yoke `is' easy, and my burden is light.'
See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,
God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.
Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,
`Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
`Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble, for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,
So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,
for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these: so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness; for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.
the law and the prophets `are' till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press 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.