Hebrews 3:7-4:11

Lexham English Bible

A Serious Warning Against Unbelief

⁷ Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,

¹² Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, with the result that you fall away^[c] from the living God. ¹³ But encourage one another day by day^[d], as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you become hardened^[e] by the deception of sin. ¹⁴ For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our commitment steadfast until the end, ¹⁵ while it is said^[f],

¹⁶ For who, when they^[h] heard it, were disobedient? Surely it was not all who went out from Egypt through Moses? ¹⁷ And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did he swear they would not enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? ¹⁹ And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

The Rest that Remains for the People of God

4 Therefore let us fear, while there^[i] remains a promise of entering into his rest, that none of you appear to fall short of it. ² For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us^[j], just as those also did, but the message they heard^[k] did not benefit them, because they^[l] were not united with those who heard it in faith. ³ For we who have believed enter into rest,^[m] just as he has said,

And yet these works have been accomplished from the foundation of the world. ⁴ For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”^{[p] 5} and in this passage again, ‘They will never enter^[q] into my rest.’”^{[r] 6} Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and the ones to whom the good news was proclaimed previously did not enter because of disobedience, ⁷ again he ordains a certain day, today, speaking by David after so long a time, just as had been said before,

⁸ For if Joshua had caused them to rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these things. ⁹ Consequently a sabbath rest remains for the people of God. ¹⁰ For the one who has entered into his rest has also himself rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

¹¹ Therefore, let us make every effort to enter into that rest, in order that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience.