God’s Rest and the Danger of Unbelief
Hebrews 4:1-13
Heb.4.1 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- Φοβηθωμεν: VERB,pres,mid/pass,subj,1,pl
- ουν: CONJ
- μηποτε: PART
- καταλειπομενης: PART,pres,pass,gen,sg,f
- επαγγελιας: NOUN,gen,sg,f
- εισελθειν: VERB,pres,mid,inf
- εις: PREP
- την: ART,acc,sg,f
- καταπαυσιν: NOUN,acc,sg,f
- αυτου: PRON,gen,sg,m
- δοκη: VERB,pres,act,subj,3,sg
- τις: PRON,nom,sg,?
- εξ: PREP
- υμων: PRON,gen,pl,2
- υστερηκεναι·: VERB,perf,act,inf
Parallels
- Psalm 95:7-11 (quotation): Hebrews repeatedly quotes this passage (esp. v.11) as the scriptural warning about unbelief that prevented Israel from entering God's rest — the immediate Old Testament source for the warning in 4:1.
- Hebrews 3:7-11 (structural): Directly connected within Hebrews: 3:7-11 applies Psalm 95 to Israel and issues the warning about hardening hearts, forming the argument that precedes and grounds the admonition in 4:1.
- Genesis 2:2-3 (thematic): The concept of God's 'rest' originates in the creation week (God rested on the seventh day), a foundational theological background for Hebrews' use of 'rest' as God's intended cessation/possession.
- Joshua 21:44 (thematic): Describes God giving Israel rest from surrounding enemies and securing their inheritance — an historical/typological precedent for the promised rest that some might 'fail to enter' in Hebrews 4:1.
Alternative generated candidates
- Therefore let us fear, lest while a promise remains of entering his rest, any of you be found to have come short of it.
- Therefore, while a promise remains of entering his rest, let us fear that none of you may appear to have fallen short of it.
Heb.4.2 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- και: CONJ
- γαρ: PART
- εσμεν: VERB,pres,act,ind,1,pl
- ευηγγελισμενοι: VERB,perf,pass,part,nom,pl,m
- καθαπερ: PART
- κακεινοι: PRON,nom,pl,m
- αλλ᾽ουκ: CONJ
- ωφελησεν: VERB,aor,act,ind,3,sg
- ο: ART,nom,sg,m
- λογος: NOUN,nom,sg,m
- της: ART,gen,sg,f
- ακοης: NOUN,gen,sg,f
- εκεινους: PRON,acc,pl,m
- μη: PART
- συγκεκερασμενους: VERB,perf,pass,part,acc,pl,m
- τη: ART,dat,sg,f
- πιστει: NOUN,dat,sg,f
- τοις: ART,dat,pl,n
- ακουσασιν: VERB,aor,act,part,dat,pl,m
Parallels
- Hebrews 3:7-11 (quotation): Hebrews here and in ch.3 cites Psalm 95 to describe the original hearers (Israel) whose unbelief made the word ineffective — the same historical example underlying 4:2.
- Hebrews 3:12-19 (structural): Continuation of the argument showing how unbelief and hardening of heart among those who heard prevented them from entering God's rest, explaining why the preached word did not profit them.
- Psalm 95:7-11 (LXX/Ps. 95) (quotation): The Old Testament source quoted in Hebrews that warns Israel for their unbelief after hearing God — the OT background for the claim that hearing without faith does not profit.
- Romans 10:17 (verbal): Affirms the principle that faith comes from hearing, implying that hearing must produce faith to benefit — parallel to Heb 4:2's point that the word profitless apart from faith.
- Hebrews 2:1 (thematic): An earlier warning in Hebrews to pay closer attention to what was heard to avoid drifting away; underscores the broader theme that mere hearing is insufficient without faithful adherence.
Alternative generated candidates
- For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us just as they did, but the message they heard did not profit them because it was not united to faith in those who heard.
- For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.
Heb.4.3 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- εισερχομεθα: VERB,pres,mid,ind,1,pl
- γαρ: PART
- εις: PREP
- καταπαυσιν: NOUN,acc,sg,f
- οι: ART,nom,pl,m
- πιστευσαντες: PART,aor,act,nom,pl,m
- καθως: CONJ
- ειρηκεν·Ως: VERB,perf,act,ind,3,sg
- ωμοσα: VERB,aor,act,ind,1,sg
- εν: PREP
- τη: ART,dat,sg,f
- οργη: NOUN,nom,sg,f
- μου: PRON,gen,sg,1
- Ει: PART
- εισελευσονται: VERB,fut,mid,ind,3,pl
- εις: PREP
- την: ART,acc,sg,f
- καταπαυσιν: NOUN,acc,sg,f
- μου: PRON,gen,sg,1
- καιτοι: CONJ
- των: ART,gen,pl,m
- εργων: NOUN,gen,pl,n
- απο: PREP
- καταβολης: NOUN,gen,sg,f
- κοσμου: NOUN,gen,sg,m
- γενηθεντων: VERB,aor,pass,ptc,gen,pl,n
Parallels
- Psalm 95:11 (quotation): Hebrews 4:3 explicitly cites this psalmic oath ('So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest') as the scriptural basis for the warning about failure to enter God's rest.
- Hebrews 3:11 (verbal): Immediate internal parallel in the same epistle: 3:11 repeats the divine oath and the theme that unbelief prevented entry into God's rest, forming the argument continued in 4:3.
- Genesis 2:2–3 (thematic): The foundational idea of divine 'rest' originates in God's rest on the seventh day after creation, which Hebrews appropriates as the theological background for believers' entering God's rest.
- Exodus 20:11 (thematic): The Sabbath command grounds the pattern of six days' work and a day of divine rest; Hebrews draws on this OT motif of rest as part of God's created order and promise.
- Joshua 21:44 (allusion): The conquest narratives speak of the LORD giving Israel 'rest' in the land ('gave them rest round about'), an OT precedent for the promised/realized rest that Hebrews discusses and reinterprets spiritually.
Alternative generated candidates
- For we who have believed enter into that rest, as he has said: 'As I swore in my anger, They shall not enter my rest'—yet his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
- For we who have believed enter into that rest, as he has said, 'As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest,' although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb.4.4 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- ειρηκεν: VERB,perf,act,ind,3,sg
- γαρ: PART
- που: ADV
- περι: PREP
- της: ART,gen,sg,f
- εβδομης: ADJ,gen,sg,f
- ουτως·Και: ADV
- κατεπαυσεν: VERB,aor,act,ind,3,sg
- ο: ART,nom,sg,m
- θεος: NOUN,nom,sg,m
- εν: PREP
- τη: ART,dat,sg,f
- ημερα: NOUN,dat,sg,f
- τη: ART,dat,sg,f
- εβδομη: ADJ,dat,sg,f
- απο: PREP
- παντων: ADJ,gen,pl,m
- των: ART,gen,pl,m
- εργων: NOUN,gen,pl,n
- αυτου: PRON,gen,sg,m
Parallels
- Genesis 2:2-3 (quotation): Hebrews 4:4 directly cites the creation account: God finished his works and rested on the seventh day (the source of the quoted wording).
- Exodus 20:11 (verbal): The Decalogue grounds Sabbath observance in the same creation-rest rationale: God made the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. Language and theological basis parallel Hebrews 4:4.
- Exodus 31:17 (verbal): This passage describes God resting on the seventh day and being refreshed, linking the Sabbath to God’s own rest and echoing the same creation-week motif cited in Hebrews 4:4.
- Colossians 2:16-17 (thematic): Paul treats the Sabbath and other observances as shadows of things to come; Hebrews 4:4’s appeal to God’s rest undergirds the New Testament re‑interpretation of Sabbath/rest theology.
Alternative generated candidates
- For somewhere he has spoken of the seventh day: 'And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.'
- For somewhere he has spoken of the seventh day in this way: 'And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.'
Heb.4.5 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- και: CONJ
- εν: PREP
- τουτω: DEM,dat,sg,m
- παλιν·Ει: ADV
- εισελευσονται: VERB,fut,mid,ind,3,pl
- εις: PREP
- την: ART,acc,sg,f
- καταπαυσιν: NOUN,acc,sg,f
- μου: PRON,gen,sg,1
Parallels
- Psalm 95:11 (LXX 95:11) (quotation): Hebrews 4:5 directly cites the LXX wording of Psalm 95:11 — 'They shall not enter my rest' — as the basis for its warning.
- Psalm 95:7-11 (structural): The verse is part of the larger Psalm 95 exhortation (Today if you hear his voice...); Hebrews echoes this whole passage as the scriptural context for warning against hardening and unbelief.
- Hebrews 3:11 (verbal): The author of Hebrews has already quoted the same line (from Psalm 95) in 3:11 to argue that the wilderness generation's unbelief prevented them from entering God's rest.
- Numbers 14:22-23 (allusion): The wilderness account in Numbers recounts God's refusal to allow the unbelieving generation to enter the Promised Land — the historical event underlying Psalm 95 and the 'rest' imagery in Hebrews.
Alternative generated candidates
- And again in this passage he says, 'They shall not enter my rest.'
- And again in this place he says, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'
Heb.4.6 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- επει: CONJ
- ουν: CONJ
- απολειπεται: VERB,pres,pass,ind,3,sg
- τινας: PRON,acc,pl,m
- εισελθειν: VERB,pres,mid,inf
- εις: PREP
- αυτην: PRON,acc,sg,f
- και: CONJ
- οι: ART,nom,pl,m
- προτερον: ADV
- ευαγγελισθεντες: VERB,aor,pass,ptc,nom,pl,m
- ουκ: PART,neg
- εισηλθον: VERB,aor,act,ind,3,pl
- δι᾽απειθειαν: PREP+NOUN,acc,sg,f
Parallels
- Hebrews 3:18-19 (verbal): Direct parallel/recapitulation: identifies the same group who 'did not enter his rest' because of disobedience/unbelief; language and argument are contiguous with 4:6.
- Hebrews 4:3 (thematic): Develops the contrast in 4:6: those who believe enter God's rest—Hebrews' main theological point about entering 'rest' versus failing to enter through unbelief.
- Psalm 95:7-11 (quotation): Passage quoted earlier in Hebrews (3:7-11) that pronounces God's oath that the generation would not enter his rest—provides the OT foundation for the warning about disobedience cited in 4:6.
- Numbers 14:22-23 (thematic): Narrative background: Israel's repeated disobedience in the wilderness led God to bar that generation from entering the promised land—a historical event underlying Hebrews' claim about not entering 'rest.'
- 1 Corinthians 10:1-11 (structural): Uses the wilderness experience as an instructive example—Paul's warning that Israel's failures (idolatry, unbelief) serve as lessons to prevent believers from similar disobedience, echoing Hebrews' warning.
Alternative generated candidates
- Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those to whom the good news was first proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience,
- Therefore since a promise remains for some to enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,
Heb.4.7 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- παλιν: ADV
- τινα: PRON,acc,sg,m
- οριζει: VERB,pres,act,ind,3,sg
- ημεραν: NOUN,acc,sg,f
- Σημερον: ADV
- εν: PREP
- Δαυιδ: NOUN,nom,sg,m
- λεγων: VERB,pres,act,part,nom,m,sg
- μετα: PREP
- τοσουτον: ADJ,acc,sg,m
- χρονον: NOUN,acc,sg,m
- καθως: CONJ
- προειρηται: VERB,perf,pass,ind,3,sg
- Σημερον: ADV
- εαν: CONJ
- της: ART,gen,sg,f
- φωνης: NOUN,gen,sg,f
- αυτου: PRON,gen,sg,m
- ακουσητε: VERB,aor,act,subj,2,pl
- μη: PART
- σκληρυνητε: VERB,aor,act,sub,2,pl
- τας: ART,acc,pl,f
- καρδιας: NOUN,gen,sg,f
- υμων·: PRON,gen,pl,2
Parallels
- Psalm 95:7-8 (quotation): Hebrews 4:7 directly quotes Psalm 95:7–8 ('Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts'), citing David as the speaker.
- Hebrews 3:7-8 (quotation): The same Psalm quotation appears earlier in Hebrews (3:7–8), showing the author’s repeated use of 'Today... do not harden your hearts' to warn the community.
- Psalm 95:7-11 (thematic): The fuller Psalm passage supplies the wilderness background (Israel's provocation and God's long-suffering) that underlies the warning against hardening the heart and the failure to enter God's rest.
- Hebrews 3:12-19 (structural): This passage develops the same pastoral concern: exhortation to beware of unbelief and a 'hardening of heart' that prevents entering God’s rest, linking the Psalm quotation to Hebrews’ central argument.
Alternative generated candidates
- he again sets a certain day—'Today'—saying through David long afterward, as already quoted: 'Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.'
- he again appoints a certain day, saying in David long afterward, as has been said before, 'Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.'
Heb.4.8 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- ει: VERB,pres,act,ind,2,sg
- γαρ: PART
- αυτους: PRON,acc,pl,m
- Ιησους: NOUN,nom,sg,m
- κατεπαυσεν: VERB,aor,act,ind,3,sg
- ουκ: PART,neg
- αν: PART
- περι: PREP
- αλλης: ADJ,gen,sg,f
- ελαλει: VERB,impf,act,ind,3,sg
- μετα: PREP
- ταυτα: PRON,acc,pl,n
- ημερας: NOUN,acc,pl,f
Parallels
- Psalm 95:7-11 (quotation): Hebrews explicitly cites this Psalm (see Heb 3:7–11; 4:7) to argue that God warned Israel they would not enter his rest, which frames the statement about Joshua and ‘another day.’
- Joshua 21:44 (verbal): Joshua/Joshua-era texts say the LORD ‘gave them rest’ (21:44), the historical claim Hebrews challenges by distinguishing Joshua’s rest from God’s ultimate rest.
- Genesis 2:2-3 (thematic): The motif of divine rest (God resting on the seventh day) undergirds the theology of ‘rest’ in Hebrews and provides the foundational theme behind promises of entering God’s rest.
- Hebrews 3:7-11 (structural): Immediate context: the author uses Psalm 95 to warn Israel and to build the argument that if Joshua had completed God’s rest there would have been no later promise — Heb 4:8 continues this argument.
Alternative generated candidates
- For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later of another day.
- For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not afterward have spoken of another day.
Heb.4.9 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- αρα: PART
- απολειπεται: VERB,pres,mid/pas,ind,3,sg
- σαββατισμος: NOUN,nom,sg,m
- τω: ART,dat,sg,m
- λαω: NOUN,dat,sg,m
- του: ART,gen,sg,n
- θεου·: NOUN,gen,sg,m
Parallels
- Psalm 95:7-11 (quotation): Hebrews explicitly cites Psalm 95’s exhortation and warning about failing to enter God’s rest; 4:9 builds on that quoted warning to affirm a remaining Sabbath rest for God’s people.
- Exodus 20:8-11 (verbal): The fourth commandment institutes Sabbath rest tied to God’s own rest after creation, providing the OT legal and theological background for the concept of a people’s sabbath-rest.
- Genesis 2:2-3 (thematic): God’s resting on the seventh day after creation supplies the archetype of divine rest that undergirds the idea of a promised/rest to be shared by God’s people.
- Hebrews 4:1-8 (structural): Immediate context: the author’s ongoing argument about ‘entering God’s rest’ culminates in 4:9’s statement that a sabbath-rest remains, so these verses form the direct exegetical context.
- Colossians 2:16-17 (allusion): Paul speaks of Sabbath days as a shadow and a foreshadowing of things to come, reflecting NT typological language that interprets Sabbath observance as pointing to a fuller rest realized in Christ—an interpretive parallel to Hebrews’ claim of a remaining sabbath-rest.
Alternative generated candidates
- So there remains a Sabbath-rest for the people of God.
- So there remains a Sabbath-rest for the people of God.
Heb.4.10 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- ο: ART,nom,sg,m
- γαρ: PART
- εισελθων: VERB,aor,act,ptc,nom,sg,m
- εις: PREP
- την: ART,acc,sg,f
- καταπαυσιν: NOUN,acc,sg,f
- αυτου: PRON,gen,sg,m
- και: CONJ
- αυτος: PRON,nom,sg,3,m
- κατεπαυσεν: VERB,aor,act,ind,3,sg
- απο: PREP
- των: ART,gen,pl,m
- εργων: NOUN,gen,pl,n
- αυτου: PRON,gen,sg,m
- ωσπερ: ADV
- απο: PREP
- των: ART,gen,pl,m
- ιδιων: ADJ,gen,pl,m
- ο: ART,nom,sg,m
- θεος: NOUN,nom,sg,m
Parallels
- Genesis 2:2-3 (allusion): God 'rested' from his works on the seventh day—Hebrews echoes this primordial model of divine rest ('rested from his works') as the basis for the believer's entry into God's rest.
- Psalm 95:11 (quotation): Hebrews repeatedly cites Psalm 95 (cf. Heb 3–4). Psalm 95:11 records God's oath preventing Israel from entering his rest, which Hebrews contrasts with believers who do enter that rest.
- Hebrews 4:3 (verbal): Immediate parallel within the same argument: Heb 4:3 affirms that 'we who have believed enter the rest,' directly connecting faith with entering God's rest mentioned in 4:10.
- Matthew 11:28-30 (thematic): Jesus' invitation to 'come to me... and I will give you rest' parallels Hebrews' theme of spiritual rest offered to believers—rest from burdens and labors.
- Revelation 14:13 (thematic): The imagery of the blessed dead 'resting from their labors' echoes the Johannine/apocalyptic motif of divine rest—similar to Hebrews' idea of ceasing from one's works and entering God's rest.
Alternative generated candidates
- For whoever has entered God's rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
- For the one who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
Heb.4.11 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- σπουδασωμεν: VERB,aor,act,sub,1,pl
- ουν: CONJ
- εισελθειν: VERB,pres,mid,inf
- εις: PREP
- εκεινην: PRON,acc,sg,f
- την: ART,acc,sg,f
- καταπαυσιν: NOUN,acc,sg,f
- ινα: CONJ
- μη: PART
- εν: PREP
- τω: ART,dat,sg,m
- αυτω: PRON,dat,sg,m
- τις: PRON,nom,sg,?
- υποδειγματι: NOUN,dat,sg,n
- πεση: VERB,aor,act,subj,3,sg
- της: ART,gen,sg,f
- απειθειας: NOUN,gen,sg,f
Parallels
- Psalm 95:11 (quotation): Direct OT quotation cited earlier in Hebrews 3–4 warning that the generation failed to enter God’s rest (’They shall not enter my rest’), which Hebrews applies to the example of disobedience.
- Hebrews 3:11 (verbal): Repeats the divine verdict ‘They shall not enter my rest,’ linking the warning about falling into unbelief with the same historical example.
- Hebrews 3:18-19 (thematic): Explains the reason Israelites did not enter the rest—unbelief—and frames that failure as the negative example believers must avoid.
- Hebrews 4:3 (verbal): Contrasts the promised rest that believers may enter with the failure of the earlier generation, using the same language of ‘entering rest’ as the positive goal.
- Numbers 14:22-23 (allusion): Narrates the wilderness rebellion and God’s judgment that the unbelieving generation would not enter the land—underlying historical incident that Hebrews treats as the example of disobedience.
Alternative generated candidates
- Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one fall by the same example of disobedience.
- Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same example of disobedience.
Heb.4.12 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- Ζων: ADJ,nom,sg,m
- γαρ: PART
- ο: ART,nom,sg,m
- λογος: NOUN,nom,sg,m
- του: ART,gen,sg,n
- θεου: NOUN,gen,sg,m
- και: CONJ
- ενεργης: ADJ,nom,sg,m
- και: CONJ
- τομωτερος: ADJ,nom,sg,m
- υπερ: PREP
- πασαν: ADJ,acc,sg,f
- μαχαιραν: NOUN,acc,sg,f
- διστομον: ADJ,acc,sg,f
- και: CONJ
- διικνουμενος: VERB,pres,mid,part,nom,sg,m
- αχρι: PREP
- μερισμου: NOUN,gen,sg,m
- ψυχης: NOUN,gen,sg,f
- και: CONJ
- πνευματος: NOUN,gen,sg,n
- αρμων: NOUN,gen,pl,m
- τε: CONJ
- και: CONJ
- μυελων: NOUN,gen,pl,m
- και: CONJ
- κριτικος: ADJ,nom,sg,m
- ενθυμησεων: NOUN,gen,pl,f
- και: CONJ
- εννοιων: NOUN,gen,pl,f
- καρδιας·: NOUN,gen,sg,f
Parallels
- Eph.6.17 (verbal): Calls the word of God 'the sword of the Spirit,' using the same weapon imagery as Hebrews' 'sharper than any double-edged sword.'
- Isa.49.2 (allusion): The servant's mouth is described as a 'sharp sword'—an OT image of the prophetic/divine word that Hebrews echoes in portraying God's word as piercing.
- Jer.23.29 (thematic): God's word likened to fire and a hammer that breaks rock—similar emphasis on the powerful, effecting, discerning force of God's word found in Hebrews 4:12.
- John 6.63 (thematic): Jesus says his words are 'spirit and life,' resonating with Hebrews' description of the Word as 'living and active' and its efficacy upon soul and spirit.
- Rev.1.16 (verbal): The risen Christ is depicted with a 'two-edged sword' coming from his mouth—an image closely parallel to Hebrews' 'double-edged' word that penetrates to soul and spirit.
Alternative generated candidates
- For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword; it penetrates to division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and it judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Heb.4.13 - Details
Translation
Original Text
Morphology
- και: CONJ
- ουκ: PART,neg
- εστιν: VERB,pres,act,ind,3,sg
- κτισις: NOUN,nom,sg,f
- αφανης: ADJ,nom,sg,f
- ενωπιον: PREP
- αυτου: PRON,gen,sg,m
- παντα: ADJ,nom,pl,n
- δε: CONJ
- γυμνα: ADJ,nom,pl,n
- και: CONJ
- τετραχηλισμενα: ADJ,nom,pl,n
- τοις: ART,dat,pl,n
- οφθαλμοις: NOUN,dat,pl,m
- αυτου: PRON,gen,sg,m
- προς: PREP
- ον: PART,pres,act,nom,sg,m
- ημιν: PRON,dat,pl,1
- ο: ART,nom,sg,m
- λογος: NOUN,nom,sg,m
Parallels
- Psalm 139:7-12 (thematic): Affirms God’s omnipresence and that nothing can be hidden from him—parallel emphasis on God’s all-seeing knowledge of every person and place.
- Luke 12:2-3 (verbal): Jesus states that nothing concealed will remain hidden and that secret words will be disclosed—closely parallels Hebrews’ claim that all is naked and open before God.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5 (verbal): Paul warns that the Lord will bring to light hidden things and disclose motives—echoes Hebrews’ theme of God’s inspection and final accounting.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14 (thematic): Declares that God will bring every deed into judgment, including secret things—connects to Hebrews’ idea that we must give account to God who sees all.
- Romans 2:16 (verbal): Speaks of God judging the secrets of men—parallels Hebrews’ assertion that all is exposed before God to whom we are accountable.
Alternative generated candidates
- And there is no creature hidden from his sight; all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
- And there is no creature hidden before him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Therefore, since a promise remains of entering his rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
For also to us the good news was proclaimed, just as to them; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not united with faith in those who heard.
For we who have believed enter into that rest, as he has said, 'As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest,' although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
For he has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: 'And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.' And again, in this place, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'
Since therefore it remains that some should enter it, and those to whom the good news was first proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience,
again he appoints a certain day, saying in David, 'Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.'
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not afterward have spoken of another day. So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
For whoever has entered into his rest has also rested from his own works, as God did from his.
Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword; it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.