Hebrews 3:11–4:11

¹¹As I sware in my wrath,

They shall not enter into my rest.

¹²Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: ¹³but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin: ¹⁴for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end: ¹⁵while it is said,

To-day if ye shall hear his voice,

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

¹⁶For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses? ¹⁷And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient? ¹⁹And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

4Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. ²For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard. ³For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said,

As I sware in my wrath,

They shall not enter into my rest:

although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

⁴For he hath said somewhere of the seventh day on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works; ⁵and in this place again, They shall not enter into my rest. ⁶Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience, ⁷he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before),

Today if ye shall hear his voice,

Harden not your hearts.

⁸For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. ⁹There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God. ¹⁰For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. ¹¹Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.