1 Therefore, since the promise of entering His rest still stands, I am careful not to be found to have fallen short of it.
2 Therefore, I receive the gospel of Christ and it is my priceless possession. My faith is reproductive and victorious because it combines effectively with the word of God.
3 I believe; therefore, I enter that rest. I am not one of those to whom God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest”; even though His work has been finished since the creation of the world.
4–6 God rested on the seventh day, not because He was or can be tired but as a metaphor and symbol for His people, a shadow for many of whom He later said, “They shall never enter my rest.” Therefore, I will not disqualify myself from God’s rest through unbelief; I will not follow the bad example set by those who formerly had the gospel preached to them but did not go in, because of their disobedience.
7 God keeps renewing the promise of rest and resetting the date as today to accommodate me, just as He did in David’s psalm, centuries later than the original invitation: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 I am, therefore, making every effort to enter that rest; therefore, I shall not fall or follow their bad example of disobedience and unbelief…
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