1 ¶ Therefore, since the promise of entering into his rest still stands, let us fear, lest any of you should be found to come short of it.

2 For the gospel was preached to us, as well as to them: but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not combined with faith in those who heard it.

3 For we who have believed enter into that rest, even though he said, So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest: and yet his work was finished when he created the world.

4 For in one passage he said this concerning the seventh day, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.

5 And in another, They shall not enter into my rest.

6 Since those to whom it was first offered did not enter because of unbelief, it then remains for some to enter it,:

7 So God again set a day, Today, saying through David, after many years; even as it was said before, Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.

8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have later spoken of another day.

9 Therefore there is still a rest for the people of God.

10 For he who enters into his rest, finds rest from his own works, even as God did from his.

11 ¶ Let us therefore strive to enter into that rest, so that no one will fall through that sort of unbelief.

12 For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even to the separation of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and judges the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 Neither is there any creature that is concealed from his sight: but everything is uncovered and bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, who has entered into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our profession of faith.

15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses; but one who was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin.