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,

The same promise of going into God’s rest is still for us. But we should be afraid that some of us may not be able to go in.

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,

We have heard the Good News even as they did, but it did them no good because it was not mixed with faith.

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,

We who have put our trust in God go into His rest. God said this of our early fathers, “I was angry and said, ‘They will not go into My rest.’” And yet God’s work was finished after He made the world. God’s Rest

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;'

In the Holy Writings He said this about the seventh day when He made the whole world, “God rested on the seventh day from all He had made.”

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

But God said this about those who turned against Him, “They will not go 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 --

Those who heard the Good News first did not go into His rest. It was because they had not obeyed Him. But the promise is still good and some are going into His rest.

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,'

God has again set a certain day for people to go into His rest. He says through David many years later as He had said before, “If you hear His voice today, do not let your hearts become hard.”

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

If Joshua had led those people into God’s rest, He would not have told of another day after that.

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

And so God’s people have a complete rest waiting for them.

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

The man who goes into God’s rest, rests from his own work the same as God rested from His work.

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

Let us do our best to go into that rest or we will be like the people who did not go in.

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;

God’s Word is living and powerful. It is sharper than a sword that cuts both ways. It cuts straight into where the soul and spirit meet and it divides them. It cuts into the joints and bones. It tells what the heart is thinking about and what it wants to do.

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.

No one can hide from God. His eyes see everything we do. We must give an answer to God for what we have done. Jesus—Our Great Religious Leader

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

We have a great Religious Leader Who has made the way for man to go to God. He is Jesus, the Son of God, Who has gone to heaven to be with God. Let us keep our trust in Jesus Christ.

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;

Our Religious Leader understands how weak we are. Christ was tempted in every way we are tempted, but He did not 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.

Let us go with complete trust to the throne of God. We will receive His loving-kindness and have His loving-favor to help us whenever we need it.