Hebreus 4

1 Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. 2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard. 3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;"✝4:3 Psalms 95:11 although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"✝4:4 Genesis 2:2 5 and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."✝4:5 Psalms 95:11

6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience, 7 he again defines a certain day, "today", saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said),

"Today if you will hear his voice,

don’t harden your hearts."✝4:7 Psalms 95:7-8

8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. 9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. 11 Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

14 Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession. 15 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. 16 Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

1 Nā, kia mataku tātou, i te mea ka tukua iho nei he kōrero pai mō tātou kia tae atu ki tōna okiokinga, kei tirohia mai tētahi o koutou kua mahue ki muri. 2 He mea kauwhau hoki te rongopai ki a tātou, he pērā anō me tērā i a rātou. Heoi, kīhai te kupu i rangona i whai pai ki a rātou; nō te mea kīhai i whakananua ki te whakapono i roto i te hunga i rangona ai. 3 Ka taea hoki te okiokinga e tātou kua whakapono nei; ka rite ki tāna i kī rā:

"Nā reira i riri ai ahau, i oati ai hoki,

‘E kore rātou e tae ki tōku okiokinga!’ "

Kua oti nā hoki ngā mahi i te tīmatanga rā anō o te ao. 4 Ko tāna kupu hoki tēnei i tētahi wāhi mō te rā whitu, "Ā, ka okioki te Atua i te rā whitu i āna mahi katoa." 5 I tēnei wāhi anō hoki, "E kore rātou e tae ki tōku okiokinga."

6 Nā, tērā atu anō he taenga mō ētahi ki reira; kīhai hoki te hunga i kauwhautia ai te rongopai ki a rātou i mua i tae, nō te mea kāhore ō rātou whakapono; 7 ā, ka motuhia mai e ia tētahi rā, i a ia i mea rā i tā Rāwiri, Hei āianei, i muri i taua wā roa rā; ko te kupu hoki tēnei:

"Hei āianei, ki te rongo koutou ki tōna reo,

kaua e whakapakeketia ō koutou ngākau."

8 Mehemea hoki i whai okiokinga rātou i a Hohua, e kore e kōrerotia e ia tētahi atu rā i muri iho. 9 Inā, tērā atu anō he hāpati okiokinga mō te iwi o te Atua. 10 Ki te tae hoki te tangata ki tōna okiokinga, ka okioki anō ia i āna mahi ake, ka pērā me te Atua i okioki i āna mahi ake. 11 Nā, kia puta tō tātou uaua ki te tomo ki taua okiokinga, kei pērā te whakapono kore o tētahi, ā, ka hinga.

12 Ora tonu hoki te kupu a te Atua, mana tonu, koi rawa atu i tētahi hoari matarua, ngoto tonu, ā, wehea noatia te ngākau me te wairua, ngā ponapona me te hinu wheua, e wawae ana anō i ngā whakaaro, i ngā hihiritanga o te ngākau. 13 Kāhore hoki he mea hanga i ngaro ki tōna aroaro. Heoi, e takoto kau ana, e tuwhera ana ngā mea katoa ki ōna kanohi, kei a ia nei he kupu mō tātou.

Ko Īhu te Tohunga Nui

14 Nā, he tino tohunga nui tō tātou, kua tomo ki ngā rangi, a Īhu, te Tama a te Atua, kia mau pū tātou ki te tikanga i whakaaetia e tātou. 15 Ehara hoki tō tātou i te tohunga nui e kore e āhei kia mamae tahi me tātou e ngoikore nei; i whakamātautauria nei hoki ia i ngā mea katoa, i pēneitia me tātou, kāhore ia he hara. 16 Nā, kia haere māia atu tātou ki te torōna o te aroha noa, kia puta mai ai ki a tātou te mahi tohu, kia kitea ai e tātou tā te aroha noa hei āwhina mai mō ngā wā e mate ai.