4 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem ^(A)to have failed to reach it.

⁹ So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,

¹⁵ See to it that no one ^(A)fails to obtain the grace of God; that no ^(B)“root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

¹¹ Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so ^(A)that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

³ For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. ⁴ For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: ^(B)“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” ⁵ And again in this passage he said,

⁷ Remember ^(A)your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and ^(B)imitate their faith.

for ^(C)he cannot deny himself.

²⁶ So I do not run aimlessly; I ^(A)do not box as one ^(B)beating the air. ²⁷ But I discipline my body and ^(C)keep it under control,^[a] lest after preaching to others ^(D)I myself should be ^(E)disqualified.