1 So let us be afraid that, while a promise of entering his rest is left open, any one of you might appear to have fallen behind.
2 For the good news has been told to us as it was to them; but the word they heard did not benefit them, because it was not blended with faith in those who heard.
3 For it is we who have believed who enter that rest, just as he has said, "As I swore in my anger, 'They will never enter my rest,'" although his works had been completed since the founding of the world.
4 For somewhere he has spoken of the seventh day like this: "And on the seventh day God rested from all his works."
5 And in this passage again: "They will never enter my rest."
6 Seeing then that some are still to enter it, and those to whom the good news came earlier did not enter on account of disobedience,
7 he once more marks out a certain day, "Today," saying through David after so long a time, as has been said before: "Today, if you will hear his voice, do not make your hearts hard."
8 For if Joshua had brought them to rest, he would not be speaking after these things about another day.
9 So there remains a Sabbath rest for God's people.
10 For the one who has entered into his rest has himself ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us be eager, then, to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same example of disobedience.
12 For the word of God is living and at work, more cutting than any two-edged sword, reaching through to the dividing of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
13 And no creature is invisible in his presence; all things are naked and laid open to the eyes of him with whom is our reckoning.
14 So, having a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold on to our confession.
15 For ours is not a high priest who cannot share the feeling of our weaknesses, but one who in all points was tempted after our likeness, without sin.
16 Let us draw near, then, with boldness to the throne of grace, to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.