The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Hebrews 04
1 Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone
of you should seem to have come short
of a promise of entering into his rest.
2 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.
3 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.
4 For he has said this somewhere about
the seventh day, “God rested on the
seventh day from all his works;”*
5 and in this place again, “They will not
enter into my rest.”*
6 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,
7 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.”*
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he
would not have spoken afterward of another day.
9 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.
12 For the word of God is living and
active, and sharper than any two-edged
sword, piercing even to the dividing of
soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow,
and is able to discern the thoughts and
intentions of the heart.
13 There is no creature that is hidden
from his sight, but all things are naked and
laid open before the eyes of him to whom
we must give an account.
14 Having then a great high priest who
has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the
Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.
15 For we don’t have a high priest who
can’t be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities, but one who has been in all
points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
16 Let’s therefore draw near with boldness
to the throne of grace, that we may
receive mercy and may find grace for help
in time of need.