Hebrews 4:6-11

International Children’s Bible

⁶It is still true that some people will enter and have God’s rest. But those who first heard the way to be saved did not enter. They did not enter because they did not obey. ⁷So God planned another day, called “today.” He spoke about that day through David a long time later. It is the same Scripture used before:

“Today listen to what he says.
Do not be stubborn.” Psalm 95:7-8

⁸We know that Joshua^[a] did not lead the people into that rest. We know this because God spoke later about another day. ⁹This shows that the seventh-day rest^[b] for God’s people is still coming. ¹⁰For anyone who enters and has God’s rest will rest from his work as God did. ¹¹So let us try as hard as we can to enter God’s rest. We must try hard so that no one will be lost by following the example of those who refused to obey.

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Footnotes

4:8 Joshua After Moses died, Joshua became leader of the Jewish people. Joshua led them into the land that God promised to give them.
4:9 seventh-day rest Literally, “sabbath rest,” meaning a sharing in the rest that God began after he created the world.