1 W e may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

2 f or we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

3 f or we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest --;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

4 f or He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

5 a nd in this again, `If they shall enter into My rest --;'

6 s ince then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --

7 a gain He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

8 f or if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;

9 t here doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

10 f or he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

11 M ay we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

12 f or the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

13 a nd there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things naked and open to His eyes -- with whom is our reckoning.

14 H aving, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession,

15 f or we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

16 w e may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace -- for seasonable help.