希伯來書 4

1 所以，幾時進入衪安息的恩許仍然存在，我們就應存戒心，免得你們中有人得不到安息，

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

2 因為我們也蒙受了喜訊，有如我們的祖先一樣；可是衪們所聽到的話為衪們毫無益處因為衪們聽的時候沒有懷著信德。

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

3 所以我們這些信了的人，必得進入安息，就如經上說的：『我在怒中起誓說：衪們決不得進入我的安息。』其實天主的化工從創世時已經完成了，

for we do enter into the rest — we who did believe, as He said, 'So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest —;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

4 因為聖經某處論及第七日說：『天主在第七天停止了自己的一切工作，開始安息。』

for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh [day] thus: 'And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

5 但這裏又說：『衪們決不得進入我的安息。』

and in this [place] again, 'If they shall enter into My rest —;'

6 那麼，既然這安息還保留著要一些人進入，而那些先聽到喜訊的人，因背信沒有進入；

since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief —

7 因此天主重新指定了一個日子，即一個「今天」，就是在很久以後藉達味所宣示的，如上邊說過的：『今天你們如果聽見衪的聲音，不要再心硬了。』

again He doth limit a certain day, 'To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time, ) as it hath been said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

8 假使若蘇厄實在使祖先安息了，此後天主便不會再論及別的一個日子。

for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;

9 由此看來，為天主的百姓，還保留了一個安息的時日。

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

10 的確，誰進入了天主的安息，衪也就停止自已的工作而安息，正如天主停止自已的正作而安息一樣。

for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

11 所以我們要努力進入那安息，免得有人照樣因背信而跌倒。

May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

12 天主的話確實是生活的，是有效力的，比各種雙刃的劍還銳利，直穿入靈魂和神魂，關節與骨髓的分離點，且可辨別心中的感覺和思念。

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

13 沒有一個受造物，在天主面前不是明顯的，萬物在衪眼前都是袒露敞開的，我們必須向衪交賬。

and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things [are] naked and open to His eyes — with whom is our reckoning.

14 我們既然有一位偉大的，進入了諸天的司祭，天主子耶穌，我們就應堅持所信奉的真道，

Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens — Jesus the Son of God — may we hold fast the profession,

15 因為我們所有的，不是一位不能同情我們弱點的大司祭，而是一位在各方面與我們相似，受過試探的，只是沒有罪過。

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but [one] tempted in all things in like manner — apart from sin;

16 所以我們要懷著依恃之心，走近恩寵的寶座，以獲得仁慈，尋到恩寵，作及時的扶助。

we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace — for seasonable help.