² For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.^{[a](A) 3} Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.

³⁹ But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.