# Hebrews 4 (New King James Version)
The Promise of Rest

##### Chapter 4
###### 1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.  
###### 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard _it._  
###### 3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:
"So I swore in My wrath,  
'They shall not enter My rest,' "
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.  
###### 4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh _day_ in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works";  
###### 5 and again in this _place:_ "They shall not enter My rest."

###### 6 Since therefore it remains that some _must_ enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,  
###### 7 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after such a long time, as it has been said:
"Today, if you will hear His voice,  
Do not harden your hearts."

###### 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.  
###### 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.  
###### 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God _did_ from His.The Word Discovers Our Condition

###### 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.  
###### 12 For the word of God _is_ living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.  
###### 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things _are_ naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we _must give_ account.Our Compassionate High Priest

###### 14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast _our_ confession.  
###### 15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all _points_ tempted as _we are,_ _yet_ without sin.  
###### 16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.