1Let us therefore be afraid, lest, while a promise of entering into his rest still stands, any one of you should seem to have fallen short of it.
2For indeed we have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they also did; but the message they heard did not benefit them, since it was not united by faith with those who heard it.
3For we who have believed are entering into the rest, just as he has said: ‘As I swore in my wrath, They shall never enter into my rest’ — although his works had been finished from the foundation of the world.
4For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day as follows: ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.’
5And again in this passage: ‘They shall never enter into my rest.’
6Since, then, it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not enter because of disobedience,
7he again fixes a certain day, ‘Today,’ saying through David after so long a time — as it has been said before — ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.’
8For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward about another day.
9So then, a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.
10For the one who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, just as God did from his own.
11Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall by the same pattern of disobedience.
12For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart;
13and no creature is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid bare to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
14Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.
15For we do not have a high priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tested in every way, according to our likeness, yet without sin.
16Let us then approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help.
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