Hebrews 3:11–4:11

¹¹As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest.

¹²Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.

¹³But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

¹⁴For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

¹⁵While it is said: To day, if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation.

¹⁶For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

¹⁷And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

¹⁸And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?

¹⁹And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.

Chapter 4

Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting.

²For unto us also it hath been declared in like manner as unto them. But the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with faith of those things they heard.

³For we, who have believed, shall enter into rest; as he said: As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest; and this indeed when the works from the foundation of the world were finished.

⁴For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

⁵And in this place again: If they shall enter into my rest.

⁶Seeing then it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief:

⁷Again he limiteth a certain day, saying in David; To day, after so long a time as it is above said: To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

⁸For if Jesus had given them rest he would never have afterwards spoken of another day.

⁹There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God.

¹⁰For he that is entered into his rest, the same also hath rested from his works, as God did from his.

¹¹Let us hasten therefore to enter into that rest: lest any man fall into the same example of unbelief.