Hebrews 4

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

Therefore, let us be very careful so that none of you might seem to have failed to reach the promise left behind for you to enter God's rest.

2 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,

For we were told the good news just as they were. But that message did not benefit those who did not unite in faith with those who obeyed.

3 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,

For we who have believed enter that rest, just as he said, “As I swore in my wrath, They will never enter my rest.” Even so, his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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

For he has somewhere spoken about the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”

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

And again in this same passage he said, “They will never enter my rest.”

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

Therefore, because it is still reserved for some to enter his rest, and since many Israelites who heard the good news did not enter it because of disobedience,

7 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,'

God has again set a certain day calling it “Today.” After many days, he spoke through David, as it was earlier said, “Today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

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

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken about another day.

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

Therefore there is still a Sabbath rest reserved for God's people.

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

For he who enters into God's rest has himself also rested from his deeds, just as God did from his.

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

Therefore let us be eager to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the kind of disobedience that they did.

12 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;

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword. It pierces even to the division of soul from spirit, and joints from marrow. It is able to know the heart's thoughts and intentions.

13 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.

Nothing created is hidden before God. Instead, everything is bare and open to the eyes of the one to whom we must give account.

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

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us firmly hold to our beliefs.

15 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;

For we do not have a high priest who cannot feel sympathy for our weaknesses. Instead, we have someone who has in all ways been tempted as we are, except that he is without sin.

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

Let us then go with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.