¹ Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

² For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard did not profit them, because they¹ were not united by faith with those who heard.

1. 4:2 M TR read "it was not" instead of "they were not"

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.

1. Psalm 95:11

⁴ For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"¹

1. Genesis 2:2

⁵ and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."¹

1. Psalm 95:11

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, do not harden your hearts."¹

1. Psalm 95:7-8

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 do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted¹ like we are, yet without sin.

1. M reads "tried" instead of "tempted"

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.