1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seemnch. 12:15 to have failed to reach it.
2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, becauseoRom. 3:3 they were not united by faith with those who listened.
3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,
pch. 3:11; Cited from Ps. 95:11 “As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not 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:qCited from Gen. 2:2; [Ex. 20:11; 31:17] “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works. ”
5 And again in this passage he said,
rver. 3 “They shall not enter my rest. ”
6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good newssSee ch. 3:19 failed to enter because of disobedience,
7 again he appoints a certain day, “Today, ” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,
tSee ch. 3:7, 8 “Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts. ”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God's rest has alsou[Rev. 14:13] rested from his works as God did from his.
11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, sov[ch. 3:12] that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 Forw1 Pet. 1:23 the word of God is living andx[Jer. 23:29; 1 Thess. 2:13] active,yIsa. 49:2; Eph. 6:17 sharper than anyzProv. 5:4; Rev. 1:16; 2:12 two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, anda[1 Cor. 14:24, 25] discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 Andb2 Chr. 16:9; Job 34:21; Ps. 33:13-15 no creature is hidden from his sight, but all arecJob 26:6 naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
14 Since then we havedch. 2:17, 18; [ch. 10:21] a great high priesteEph. 4:10 who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God,fch. 10:23 let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priestg[ch. 5:2; Isa. 53:3] who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has beend[See ver. 14 above] tempted as we are,hch. 9:28; 1 Pet. 2:22; 1 John 3:5; [ch. 7:26; John 8:46; 14:30] yet without sin. 16 ich. 10:19; Eph. 3:12; [ch. 7:19, 25] 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.