Epistle to the Hebrews

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, 'They always err in their heart, But they didn't know my ways;'

As I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn't all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached 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."

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.

For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.