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Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience, he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said),

“Today if you will hear his voice,
    don’t harden your hearts.”Psalm 95:7-8

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. 11 Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

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Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom [a]the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience, he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before),

[b]To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
Harden not your hearts.

For if [c]Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall [d]after the same example of disobedience.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:6 Or, the gospel was
  2. Hebrews 4:7 Ps. 95:7f.
  3. Hebrews 4:8 Greek Jesus. Compare Acts 7:45.
  4. Hebrews 4:11 Or, into. Greek in.