Hebrews 3:11–4:11

^11aAs I swore in My wrath,

‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

The Peril of Unbelief

^12aTake care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart ¹that falls away from ^bthe living God.

¹³But ^aencourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the ^bdeceitfulness of sin.

¹⁴For we have become partakers of Christ, ^aif we hold fast the beginning of our ^bassurance firm until the end,

¹⁵while it is said,

“^aToday if you hear His voice,

Do not harden your hearts, as ¹when they provoked Me.”

¹⁶For who ^aprovoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, ^bdid not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

¹⁷And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^awhose bodies fell in the wilderness?

¹⁸And to whom did He swear ^athat they would not enter His rest, but to those who were ^bdisobedient?

¹⁹So we see that they were not able to enter because of ^aunbelief.

Chapter 4

The Believer’s Rest

¹Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have ^acome short of it.

²For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but ^athe word ¹they heard did not profit them, because ²it was not united by faith in those who heard.

³For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said,

“^aAs I swore in My wrath,

They shall not enter My rest,”

although His works were finished ^bfrom the foundation of the world.

⁴For He has said ^asomewhere concerning the seventh day: “^bAnd God ^crested on the seventh day from all His works”;

⁵and again in this passage, “^aThey shall not enter My rest.”

⁶Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of ^adisobedience,

⁷He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying ¹through David after so long a time just ^aas has been said before,

“^bToday if you hear His voice,

Do not harden your hearts.”

⁸For ^aif ¹Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.

⁹So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

¹⁰For the one who has entered His rest has himself also ^arested from his works, as ^bGod did from His.

¹¹Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same ^aexample of ^bdisobedience.