Hebrews 3:11–4:11

¹¹So I swore in My wrath,

‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

¹²Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; ¹³but ²exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, ¹⁵while it is said:

^l“Today, if you will hear His voice,

Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers

^16mFor who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? ¹⁷Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ⁿwhose corpses fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸And ^oto whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? ¹⁹So we see that they could not enter in because of ^punbelief.

The Promise of Rest

4Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, ^alet us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. ²For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, ¹not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. ³For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:

^b“So I swore in My wrath,

‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ”

although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. ⁴For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: ^c“And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; ⁵and again in this place: ^d“They shall not enter My rest.”

⁶Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, ⁷again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said:

^e“Today, if you will hear His voice,

Do not harden your hearts.”

⁸For if ²Joshua had ^fgiven them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. ⁹There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. ¹⁰For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

The Word Discovers Our Condition

^11gLet us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.