English Standard Version Verse of the Day

16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

I like the KJV version of that verse..

Let us therefore come BOLDLY unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16

Hebrews 4:16

International Standard Version (©2008)
So let us keep on coming boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So we can go confidently to the throne of God’s kindness to receive mercy and find kindness, which will help us at the right time.

King James Bible
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

American King James Version
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

American Standard Version
Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

Bible in Basic English
Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that we may obtain mercy, and find grace in seasonable aid.

Darby Bible Translation
Let us approach therefore with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help.

English Revised Version
Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

Webster’s Bible Translation
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Weymouth New Testament
Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our times of need.

World English Bible
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

Young’s Literal Translation
we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace — for seasonable help.

Geneva Study Bible
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

People’s New Testament

4:16 Let us therefore come boldly. Because our high priest can be touched by our infirmities.

Unto the throne of grace. The Jewish high priest interceded before the mercy-seat. We may come boldly to the mercy-seat, knowing that our loving Elder Brother is our high priest in the heavens. Hence we may always have confidence when we ask for

grace to help in time of need. The practical lesson of the chapter is that the True Rest promised remains. It was not the Sabbath day, nor was it Canaan. It is the heavenly rest of which these are types. Unbelieving disobedience excluded the Israelites from the typical rest of Canaan. So, too, it will exclude those who have started to enter into the heavenly rest if they refuse to hear Christ through unbelief. The believing Joshua and Caleb entered into Canaan. So, too, the true and faithful believers who follow Christ will enter into the rest above.

Wesley’s Notes

4:16 Let us therefore come boldly - Without any doubt or fear. Unto the throne of God, our reconciled Father, even his throne of grace - Grace erected it, and reigns there, and dispenses all blessings in a way of mere, unmerited favour.

Scofield Reference Notes

Margin throne of grace

Grace (imparted). Heb 12:15,28 Rom 6:1 2Pet 3:18.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. come-rather as Greek, “approach,” “draw near.”

boldly-Greek, “with confidence,” or “freedom of speech” (Eph 6:19).

the throne of grace-God’s throne is become to us a throne of grace through the mediation of our High Priest at God’s right hand (Heb 8:1; 12:2). Pleading our High Priest Jesus’ meritorious death, we shall always find God on a throne of grace. Contrast Job’s complaint (Job 23:3-8) and Elihu’s “ If,” &c. (Job 33:23-28).

obtain-rather, “receive.”

mercy-”Compassion,” by its derivation (literally, fellow feeling from community of suffering), corresponds to the character of our High Priest “touched with the feeling of our infirmities” (Heb 4:15).

find grace-corresponding to “throne of grace.” Mercy especially refers to the remission and removal of sins; grace, to the saving bestowal of spiritual gifts [Estius]. Compare “Come unto Me . and I will give you rest (the rest received on first believing). Take My yoke on you . and ye shall find rest (the continuing rest and peace found in daily submitting to Christ’s easy yoke; the former answers to “receive mercy” here; the latter, to “find grace,” Mt 11:28, 29).

in time of need-Greek, “seasonably.” Before we are overwhelmed by the temptation; when we most need it, in temptations and persecutions; such as is suitable to the time, persons, and end designed (Ps 104:27). A supply of grace is in store for believers against all exigencies; but they are only supplied with it according as the need arises. Compare “in due time,” Ro 5:6. Not, as Alford explains, “help in time,” that is, to-day, while it is yet open to us; the accepted time (2Co 6:2).

help-Compare Heb 2:18, “He is able to succor them that are tempted.”

Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

4:11-16 Observe the end proposed: rest spiritual and eternal; the rest of grace here, and glory hereafter; in Christ on earth, with Christ in Heaven. After due and diligent labour, sweet and satisfying rest shall follow; and labour now, will make that rest more pleasant when it comes. Let us labour, and quicken each other to be diligent in duty. The Holy Scriptures are the word of God. When God sets it home by his Spirit, it convinces powerfully, converts powerfully, and comforts powerfully. It makes a soul that has long been proud, to be humble; and a perverse spirit, to be meek and obedient. Sinful habits, that are become as it were natural to the soul, and rooted deeply in it, are separated and cut off by this sword. It will discover to men their thoughts and purposes, the vileness of many, the bad principles they are moved by, the sinful ends they act to. The word will show the sinner all that is in his heart. Let us hold fast the doctrines of Christian faith in our heads, its enlivening principles in our hearts, the open profession of it in our lips, and be subject to it in our lives. Christ executed one part of his priesthood on earth, in dying for us; the other he executes in heaven, pleading the cause, and presenting the offerings of his people. In the sight of Infinite Wisdom, it was needful that the Saviour of men should be one who has the fellow-feeling which no being but a fellow-creature could possibly have; and therefore it was necessary he should actual experience of all the effects of sin that could be separated from its actual guilt. God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, Ro 8:3; but the more holy and pure he was, the more he must have been unwilling in his nature to sin, and must have had deeper impression of its evil; consequently the more must he be concerned to deliver his people from its guilt and power. We should encourage ourselves by the excellence of our High Priest, to come boldly to the throne of grace. Mercy and grace are the things we want; mercy to pardon all our sins, and grace to purify our souls. Besides our daily dependence upon God for present supplies, there are seasons for which we should provide in our prayers; times of temptation, either by adversity or prosperity, and especially our dying time. We are to come with reverence and Godly fear, yet not as if dragged to the seat of justice, but as kindly invited to the mercy-seat, where grace reigns. We have boldness to enter into the holiest only by the blood of Jesus; He is our Advocate, and has purchased all our souls want or can desire.

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