Hebrews 4:1-10 ▼

1 God's promise that we may enter his place of rest still stands. We are afraid that some of you think you won't enter his place of rest.

2 We have heard the same Good News that your ancestors heard. But the message didn't help those who heard it in the past because they didn't believe.

3 We who believe are entering that place of rest. As God said, |So I angrily took a solemn oath that they would never enter my place of rest.| God said this even though he had finished his work when he created the world.

4 Somewhere in Scripture God has said this about the seventh day: |On the seventh day God rested from all his work.|

5 God also said in the same passage, |They will never enter my place of rest.|

6 However, some people enter that place of rest. Those who heard the Good News in the past did not enter God's place of rest because they did not obey God.

7 So God set another day. That day is today. Many years after [your ancestors failed to enter that place of rest] God spoke about it through David in the passage already quoted: |If you hear God speak today, don't be stubborn.|

8 If Joshua had given the people rest, God would not have spoken about another day.

9 Therefore, a time of rest and worship exists for God's people.

10 Those who entered his place of rest also rested from their work as God did from his.