The Promise of Rest

4 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, ^(A)let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

⁹ There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

¹⁵ looking carefully lest anyone ^(A)fall short of the grace of God; lest any ^(B)root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

The Word Discovers Our Condition

^11 (A)Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

³ For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:

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: ^(B)“And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; ⁵ and again in this place: ^(C)“They shall not enter My rest.”

Concluding Religious Directions

⁷ Remember those who ^[a]rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.

²⁶ Therefore I run thus: ^(A)not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. ^27 (B)But I discipline my body and ^(C)bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become ^(D)disqualified.

¹² Therefore ^(A)let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.