Hebrews 4:1-13 (Epistle)
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- Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
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- For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
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- For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
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- For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;
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- and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”
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- Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,
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- again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
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- For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.
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- There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
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- For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
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- Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
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- For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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- And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.