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Hebrews 4:2

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4:2For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in2 with those who heard it in faith.3

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  1. 2 Or “they were not united.”
  2. 3 A few (א and a few versional witnesses) have the nominative singular participle συγκεκερασμένος (sunkekerasmenos, “since it [the message] was not combined with faith by those who heard it”), a reading that refers back to the ὁ λόγος (ho logos, “the message”). There are a few other variants here (e.g., συγκεκεραμμένοι [sunkekerammenoi] in 104, συγκεκεραμένους [sunkekeramenous] in 1881 𝔐), but the accusative plural participle συγκεκερασμένους (sunkekerasmenous), found in 𝔓13vid,46 A B C D* Ψ 0243 0278 33 81 1739 2464 , has by far the best external credentials. This participle agrees with the previous ἐκείνους (ekeinous, “those”), a more difficult construction grammatically than the nominative singular. Thus, both on external and internal grounds, συγκεκερασμένους is preferred.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For we also have received the good news just as they did. But the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united with those who heard it in faith.

NLTNew Living Translation

For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as those also did, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united with those who heard it in faith.

KJV 1900King James Version

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.