1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of
entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.
2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did,
but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with
faith by those who heard. 3 For we who have believed do enter into that
rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into
my rest;” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the
seventh day from all his works;” 5 and in this place again, “They will not
enter into my rest.”
6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to
whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of
disobedience, 7 he again defines a certain day, today, saying through
David so long a time afterward (just as has been said),
“Today if you will hear his voice,
Don’t harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of
another day. 9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of
God. 10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from
his works, as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore give diligence to
enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of
disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper
than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and
spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and
intentions of the heart.
13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are
naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14 Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession. 15 For we
don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet
without sin. 16 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.
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