Hebrews 4:1–16

Therefore, 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.^{1 3}For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

^p“As 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: ^q“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” ⁵And again in this passage he said,

^r“They shall not enter my rest.”

⁶Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news ^sfailed to enter because of disobedience, ⁷again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,

^t“Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts.”

⁸For if Joshua had given them rest, God² 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 ^urested from his works as God did from his.

¹¹Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so ^vthat no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. ¹²For ^wthe word of God is living and ^xactive, ^ysharper than any ^ztwo-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and ^adiscerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. ¹³And ^bno creature is hidden from his sight, but all are ^cnaked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Jesus the Great High Priest

¹⁴Since then we have ^da great high priest ^ewho has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, ^flet us hold fast our confession. ¹⁵For we do not have a high priest ^gwho is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been ^dtempted as we are, ^hyet without sin. ¹⁶ⁱLet us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.