Hebrews 4

1 Therefore let us be on our guard lest perhaps, while He still leaves us a promise of being admitted to His rest, some one of you should be found to have fallen short of it.

Let us therefore fear, lest at any time, although there is left behind a promise of entering into his rest, —any one from amongst you should be deemed, to have come short;

2 For Good News has been brought to us as truly as to them; but the message they heard failed to benefit them, because they were not one in faith with those who gave heed to it.

For we have had delivered to us the joyful message, just as even, they; but the word which was heard did not profit them, they not having been blended, by faith, with the things heard.

3 We who have believed are soon to be admitted to the true rest; as He has said, "As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest," although God's works had been going on ever since the creation of the world.

For we who have believed, are to enter into the rest, according as he hath said—So I sware in mine anger, They shall not enter into my rest; And yet, the works, from the foundation of the world, had been brought into existence,

4 For, as we know, when speaking of the seventh day He has used the words, "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works;"

For he hath spoken, somewhere, concerning the seventh [day], thus—And God rested, on the seventh day, from all his works;

5 and He has also declared, "They shall not be admitted to My rest."

And in this again—They shall not enter into my rest.

6 Since, then, it is still true that some will be admitted to that rest, and that because of disobedience those who formerly had Good News proclaimed to them were not admitted,

Seeing, therefore, that it is left over for, some, to enter into it, and, they who formerly had delivered to them the joyful message, entered not in by reason of obstinacy, —

7 He again definitely mentions a certain day, "To-day," saying long afterwards, by David's lips, in the words already quoted, "To-day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts."

Again, he marketh out a certain day, To-day, in David, saying—after so long a time as this, —according as it hath been said before: —To-day, if, unto his voice, ye would hearken, do not harden your hearts.

8 For if Joshua had given them the true rest, we should not afterwards hear God speaking of another still future day.

For, if, unto them, Joshua had given rest, it had not in that case, concerning another day, been speaking, after, these things.

9 It follows that there still remains a sabbath rest for the people of God.

Hence there is, left over, a Sabbath-keeping, for the people of God.

10 For He who has been admitted to His rest, has rested from His works as God did from His.

For, he that hath entered into his rest, He too, hath rested from his works, just as, from his own, God, [rested].

11 Let it then be our earnest endeavour to be admitted to that rest, so that no one may perish through following the same example of unbelief.

Let us, therefore, give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall into the same example, of obstinacy.

12 For God's Message is full of life and power, and is keener than the sharpest two-edged sword. It pierces even to the severance of soul from spirit, and penetrates between the joints and the marrow, and it can discern the secret thoughts and purposes of the heart.

For, living, is the word of God, and, energetic, and more cutting than any knife with two edges, and penetrating as far as a dividing asunder of soul and spirit, of joints also, and marrow, and able to judge the impulses and designs of the heart;

13 And no created thing is able to escape its scrutiny; but everything lies bare and completely exposed before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

And there is, no created thing, can be secreted before him, but, all things, are naked and exposed to his eyes: —as to whom is, our discourse.

14 Inasmuch, then, as we have in Jesus, the Son of God, a great High Priest who has passed into Heaven itself, let us hold firmly to our profession of faith.

Having then a great high-priest who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession;

15 For we have not a High Priest who is unable to feel for us in our weaknesses, but one who was tempted in every respect just as we are tempted, and yet did not sin.

For we have not a high-priest unable to have fellow-feeling with our weaknesses, but one tested in all respects, by way of likeness, apart from sin.

16 Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our times of need.

Let us, then, be approaching with freedom of speech, unto the throne of favour, that we may receive mercy, and, favour, may find, for seasonable succour.