And, “You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of Your hands;

Where your fathers put Me to the test, And saw My works for forty years.

For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, “As I swore in My anger, They certainly shall not enter My rest,” although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;

For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.

The Danger of Falling Away

Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?