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| 1. | We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short, |
| 2. | for 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. | for 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. | for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;` |
| 5. | and in this place again, `If they shall enter into My rest -- ;` |
| 6. | since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief -- |
| 7. | again 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. | for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things; |
| 9. | there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God, |
| 10. | for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own. |
| 11. | May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall, |
| 12. | for 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. | and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes -- with whom is our reckoning. |
| 14. | Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession, |
| 15. | for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin; |
| 16. | we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace -- for seasonable help. |