Hebrews 3:7-19

A Rest for the People of God

7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

aToday, if you hear his voice,
8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for bforty years.
10Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11 cAs I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
12Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from dthe living God. 13But eexhort one another every day, as long as it is calledtoday,” that none of you may be hardened by fthe deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have come to share in Christ, gif indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15As it is said,

hToday, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16For iwho were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not jall those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, kwhose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did he swear that lthey would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19So we see that mthey were unable to enter because of unbelief.

Hebrews 4:1-13

1Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem nto have failed to reach it. 2For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because othey were not united by faith with those who listened.
Some manuscripts it did not meet with faith in the hearers
3For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

qAs I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest,’”
although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: rAnd God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” 5And again in this passage he said,

s“They shall not enter my rest.”
6Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news tfailed to enter because of disobedience, 7again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,

uToday, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”
8For if Joshua had given them rest, God
Greek he
would not have spoken of another day later on.
9So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10for whoever has entered God’s rest has also wrested from his works as God did from his.

11Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so xthat no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12For ythe word of God is living and zactive, aasharper than any abtwo-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and acdiscerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13And adno creature is hidden from his sight, but all are aenaked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

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