Hebrews - Chapter 4

Heaven and the Promised Land

¹ Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

² For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard [it.]

³ For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: "So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest,' " although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

⁴ For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh [day] in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works";

⁵ and again in this [place:] "They shall not enter My rest."

⁶ Since therefore it remains that some [must] enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,

⁷ again He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after such a long time, as it has been said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts."

⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.

⁹ There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

¹⁰ For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God [did] from His.

¹¹ Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

¹² For the word of God [is] living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

¹³ And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things [are] naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we [must give] account.

Christ - the High Priest

¹⁴ Seeing then that 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 do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all [points] tempted as [we are, yet] without sin.

¹⁶ Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.