¹Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem nto have failed to reach it. ²For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because othey were not united by faith with those who listened.1 ³For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

p“As I swore in my wrath,

‘They shall not enter my rest,’”

although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. ⁴For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: q“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” ⁵And again in this passage he said,

r“They shall not enter my rest.”

⁶Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news sfailed to enter because of disobedience, ⁷again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,

t“Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts.”

⁸For if Joshua had given them rest, God2 would not have spoken of another day later on. ⁹So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, ¹⁰for whoever has entered God's rest has also urested from his works as God did from his.

¹¹Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so vthat no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

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