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¹ We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, anyone of you may seem to have come short,² for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,³ for we enter into the rest—we who believed, as He said, "So I swore in My anger, They will [not] enter into My rest"; and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,⁴ for He spoke in a certain place concerning the seventh [day] thus: "And God rested in the seventh day from all His works";⁵ and in this [place] again, "They will [not] enter into My rest";⁶ since then, it remains for some to enter into it, and those who first heard good news did not enter in because of unbelief—⁷ again He limits a certain day, "Today," in David saying, after so long a time, as it has been said, "Today, if you may hear His voice, you may not harden your hearts,"⁸ for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken after these things concerning another day;⁹ there remains, then, a Sabbath rest to the people of God,¹⁰ for he who entered into His rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

¹¹ May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one may fall in the same example of the unbelief,¹² for the Word of God is living, and working, and sharper—beyond every two-edged sword—and piercing as far as [the] division of soul and spirit, of joints and also marrows, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;¹³ and there is not a created thing hidden before Him, but all things [are] naked and open to His eyes—with whom is our reckoning.¹⁴ Having, then, a great Chief Priest having passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—may we hold fast the profession,¹⁵ for we do not have a Chief Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but [One] tempted in all things in like manner, [yet] without sin;¹⁶ we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace—for seasonable help.