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¹ Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it.² For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.³ For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.⁴ For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."⁵ And again in this place he said, "They shall never enter my rest."⁶ Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,⁷ again he sets a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, "Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later of another day.⁹ So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God;¹⁰ for whoever enters God's rest also ceases from his labors as God did from his.

¹¹ Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.¹² For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.¹³ And before him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.¹⁴ Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.¹⁵ For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.¹⁶ Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.