¹² See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.^{(D) 13} But encourage one another daily,^(E) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.^{(F) 14} We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold^(G) our original conviction firmly to the very end.^{(H) 15} As has just been said:

¹⁶ Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?^{(J) 17} And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^{(K) 18} And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest^(L) if not to those who disobeyed?^{(M) 19} So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.^(N)

A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God

4 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.^{(A) 2} For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.^[a](B)