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| 4:1 |
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it.
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| 4:2 |
For good news came to us just as to them;but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.
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| 4:3 |
For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, 'As I swore in my wrath, They shall never enter my rest,'' although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
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| 4:4 |
For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way, 'And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.'
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| 4:5 |
And again in this place he said, 'They shall never enter my rest.'
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| 4:6 |
Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
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| 4:7 |
again he sets a certain day, 'Today,' saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, 'Today, whenyou hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.'
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| 4:8 |
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later of another day.
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| 4:9 |
So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God;
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| 4:10 |
for whoever enters God's rest also ceases from his labors as God did from his.
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| 4:11 |
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.
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| 4:12 |
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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| 4:13 |
And before him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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| 4:14 |
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
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| 4:15 |
For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
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| 4:16 |
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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