⁵⁸ And he did not do many mighty works there, ^(A)because of their unbelief.

⁵ And ^(A)he could do no mighty work there, except that ^(B)he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. ⁶ And ^(C)he marveled because of their unbelief.

^(D)And he went about among the villages teaching.

²⁰ That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you ^(A)stand fast through faith. So ^(B)do not become proud, but ^(C)fear.

¹² Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from ^(A)the living God. ¹³ But ^(B)exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by ^(C)the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴ For we have come to share in Christ, ^(D)if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. ¹⁵ As it is said,

¹⁶ For ^(F)who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not ^(G)all those who left Egypt led by Moses? ¹⁷ And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(H)whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did he swear that ^(I)they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? ¹⁹ So we see that ^(J)they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

²⁵ But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when ^(A)the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, ²⁶ and Elijah was sent to none of them ^(B)but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. ²⁷ And ^(C)there were many lepers^[a] in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, ^(D)but only Naaman the Syrian.” ²⁸ When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. ²⁹ And they rose up and ^(E)drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.

⁶ Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news ^(A)failed to enter because of disobedience, ⁷ again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,

⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, God^[a] would not have spoken of another day later on. ⁹ So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, ¹⁰ for whoever has entered God's rest has also ^(C)rested from his works as God did from his.

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