Anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. … Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.

For … this body of ours had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn—conflicts on the outside, fears within. But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us. … Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.

It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience. Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

There remains, then, a Sabbathrest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.

This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

He 4:9; He 4:10, He 4:11; 2Co 7:5-6, He 4:1; He 4:6-7; He 4:9; 1Jo 3:19-20

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