Hebreus 4

1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem *ch. 12:15to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because *Rom. 3:3they were not united by faith with those who listened.*4:2 Some manuscripts it did not meet with faith in the hearers3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

*ch. 3:11;Cited from Ps. 95:11"As I swore in my wrath,

‘They shall not enter my rest,’"

although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: *Cited from Gen. 2:2;[Ex. 20:11;31:17]"And God rested on the seventh day from all his works." 5 And again in this passage he said,

*ver. 3"They shall not enter my rest."

6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news *See ch. 3:19failed to enter because of disobedience, 7 again he appoints a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,

*See ch. 3:7,8"Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts."

8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God*4:8 Greek he would not have spoken of another day later on. 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also *[Rev. 14:13]rested from his works as God did from his.

11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so *[ch. 3:12]that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 For *1 Pet. 1:23the word of God is living and *[Jer. 23:29;1 Thess. 2:13] active, *Isa. 49:2;Eph. 6:17sharper than any *Prov. 5:4;Rev. 1:16;2:12two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and *[1 Cor. 14:24,25]discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And *2 Chr. 16:9;Job 34:21;Ps. 33:13-15no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are *Job 26:6naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Jesus the Great High Priest

14 Since then we have *ch. 2:17,18;[ch. 10:21] a great high priest *Eph. 4:10who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, *ch. 10:23let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest *[ch. 5:2;Isa. 53:3] who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been *[See ver. 14above] tempted as we are, *ch. 9:28;1 Pet. 2:22;1 John 3:5;[ch. 7:26;John 8:46;14:30]yet without sin. 16 *ch. 10:19;Eph. 3:12;[ch. 7:19, 25]Let 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.