1NOW since the same promise of rest is offered to us today, let us be continually on our guard that none of us even looks like failing to attain it.
2For we too have had a gospel preached to us, as those men had. Yet the message proclaimed to them did them no good, because they only heard and did not believe as well.
3It is only as a result of our faith and trust that we experience that rest. For he said: As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: not because the rest was not preparedit had been ready since the work of creation was completed,
4as he says elsewhere in the scriptures, speaking of the seventh day of creation, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.
5In the passage above he says, "They shall not enter into my rest."
6It is clear that some were intended to experience this rest and, since the previous hearers of the message failed to attain to it because they would not believe God,
7he proclaims a further opportunity when he says through David, many years later, "today", just as he had said "today" before. Today if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.
8For if Joshua had given them the rest, we should not find God saying, at a much later date, "today".
9There still exists, therefore, a full and complete rest for the people of God.
10And he who experiences his rest is resting from his own work as fully as God from his.
11Let us then be eager to know this rest for ourselves, and let us beware that no one misses it through falling into the same kind of unbelief as those we have mentioned.
12For the Word that God speaks is alive and active; it cuts more keenly than any twoedged sword: it strikes through to the place where soul and spirit meet, to the innermost intimacies of a man's being: it examines the very thoughts and motives of a man's heart.
13No creature has any cover from the sight of God; everything lies naked and exposed before the eyes of him with whom we have to deal.
14Seeing that we have a great High Priest who has passed though the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to our faith.
15For ours is no High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesseshe himself has shared fully in all our experience of temptation, except that he never sinned.
16Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with fullest confidence, that we may receive mercy for our failures and grace to help in the hour of need.
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