The Letter to the Hebrews, Chapter 4
{4:1} Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem
to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. {4:2} 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. {4:3} 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;"[1] although the works were finished from
the foundation of the world. {4:4} For he has said this somewhere
about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his
works;"[2] {4:5} and in this place again, "They will not enter into my
rest."[3]
{4:6} 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, {4:7} 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."[4]
{4:8} For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken
afterward of another day. {4:9} There remains therefore a Sabbath rest
for the people of God. {4:10} For he who has entered into his rest has
himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. {4:11} Let us
therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall
after the same example of disobedience. {4:12} 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.
{4:13} 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. {4:14} Having then a great high priest, who has passed
through the heavens, Yeshua, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to
our confession. {4:15} 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. {4:16} 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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Footnotes:
[1] {4:3} Psalm 95:11
[2] {4:4} Genesis 2:2
[3] {4:5} Psalm 95:11
[4] {4:7} Psalm 95:7-8
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