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Hebrews 4:1-11

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1 Therefore, since the promise that we can enter into rest is still open, let's be careful so that none of you will appear to miss it.
1 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.
2 We also had the good news preached to us, just as the Israelites did. However, the message they heard didn't help them because they weren't united in faith with the ones who listened to it.
2 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.
3 We who have faith are entering the rest. As God said, And because of my anger I swore: "They will never enter into my rest!" And yet God's works were completed at the foundation of the world.
3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.
4 Then somewhere he said this about the seventh day of creation: God rested on the seventh day from all his works.
4 For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”
5 But again, in the passage above, God said, They will never enter my rest!
5 And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”
6 Therefore, it's left open for some to enter it, and the ones who had the good news preached to them before didn't enter because of disobedience.
6 Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience,
7 Just as it says in the passage above, God designates a certain day as "today," when he says through David much later, Today, if you hear his voice, don't have stubborn hearts.
7 God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
8 If Joshua gave the Israelites rest, God wouldn't have spoken about another day later on.
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
9 So you see that a sabbath rest is left open for God's people.
9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;
10 The one who entered God's rest also rested from his works, just as God rested from his own.
10 for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.
11 Therefore, let's make every effort to enter that rest so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience,
11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
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