¹Therefore let us fear, lest, while the promise to enter into his rest is left remaining, any of you may seem to have fallen short.

²For we have had good news proclaimed to us, just as also they did; but the message they heard did not profit them, not being united with the trust of those who had heard.

³For we who have trusted enter into the rest, even as he has said: So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest; and yet the works have been finished from the foundation of the world.

⁴For he has spoken somewhere concerning the seventh day in this way: And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.

⁵And in this passage again: They will not enter into my rest.

⁶Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and those formerly evangelised did not enter in because of disobedience,

⁷again he appoints a certain day, Today, saying through David, after so long a time, even as it has been predicted: Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.

⁸For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not then have been speaking about another day after this;

⁹So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

¹⁰For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his own.

¹¹Therefore let us be diligent to enter into that very rest, so that no one may fall by the same example of disobedience.

¹²For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even as far as the division of being and spirit, of joints and also marrows, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart;

¹³And there is no creature hidden before him; but all things are uncovered and laid bare to his eyes, to whom is our reckoning.

¹⁴Therefore, having a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to our confession.

¹⁵For we have not a high priest not being able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

¹⁶Therefore let us come with boldness to the throne of favor, so that we may receive compassion and find favor for help in time of need.