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# Chapter 4
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1. Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
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2. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
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3. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,
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"As I swore in my wrath,
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'They shall not enter my rest,'"
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although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
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4. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."
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5. And again in this passage he said,
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"They shall not enter my rest."
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6. Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
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7. again he appoints a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,
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"Today, if you hear his voice,
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do not harden your hearts."
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8. For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.
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9. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
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10. for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
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11. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
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12. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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13. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
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Jesus the Great High Priest
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14. Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
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15. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
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16. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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