To the Hebrews, 4

¹ Therefore, since a promise of entering into his rest remains, let us be on guard^*1 for fear someone among you seems to fall short of it.

² For we have also had the good news declared to us, just as they had; but the word that they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

³ For we who have exercised faith do enter into the rest, just as he has said: “So I swore in my anger, ‘They will not enter into my rest,’” although his works were finished from the founding of the world.

⁴ For in one place he has said of the seventh day as follows: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”

⁵ and here again he says: “They will not enter into my rest.”

⁶ Therefore, since it remains for some to enter into it, and those to whom the good news was first declared did not enter in because of disobedience,

⁷ he again marks off a certain day by saying long afterward in David’s psalm, “Today”; just as it has been said above, “Today if you listen to his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

⁸ For if Joshua had led them into a place of rest, God would not afterward have spoken of another day.

⁹ So there remains a sabbath-rest for the people of God.

¹⁰ For the man who has entered into God’s rest has also rested from his own works, just as God did from his own.

¹¹ Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall into the same pattern of disobedience.

¹² For the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul^*1 and spirit,^*2 and of joints from the marrow, and is able to discern thoughts and intentions of the heart.

¹³ And there is not a creation that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and openly exposed to the eyes of the one to whom we must give an account.

¹⁴ Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold on to our public declaration of him.

¹⁵ For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tested in all respects as we have, but without sin.

¹⁶ Let us, then, approach the throne of undeserved kindness with freeness of speech, so that we may receive mercy and find undeserved kindness to help us at the right time.