entering gods rest

²⁸Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.

¹Therefore, we should be afraid, lest the promise of entering into his rest may be relinquished, and some of you may be judged to be lacking. ²For this was announced to us in a similar manner as to them. But the mere hearing of the word did not benefit them, since it was not joined together with a faith in those things that they heard. ³For we who have believed shall enter into rest, in the same manner as he said: “So it is as I have sworn in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!” And certainly, this is when the works from the foundation of the world have been finished. ⁴For, in a certain place, he spoke about the seventh day in this manner: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” ⁵And in this place again: “They shall not enter into my rest!” ⁶Therefore, this is because certain ones remain who are to enter into it, and those to whom it was announced first did not enter into it, because of unbelief.

¹Therefore, we should be afraid, lest the promise of entering into his rest may be relinquished, and some of you may be judged to be lacking.

¹The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior. ²Let us anticipate his presence with confession, and let us sing joyfully to him with psalms. ³For the Lord is a great God and a great King over all gods. ⁴For in his hand are all the limits of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his. ⁵For the sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. ⁶Come, let us adore and fall prostrate, and let us weep before the Lord who made us.

⁸For if Jesus had offered them rest, he would never have spoken, afterward, about another day.

³For we who have believed shall enter into rest, in the same manner as he said: “So it is as I have sworn in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!” And certainly, this is when the works from the foundation of the world have been finished.

¹⁹And so, we perceive that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

⁷For he is the Lord our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. ⁸If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts: ⁹as in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me, though they had seen my works. ¹⁰For forty years, I was offended by that generation, and I said: These have always strayed in heart. ¹¹And these have not known my ways. So I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest.

¹Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus. ²He is faithful to the One who made him, just as Moses also was, with his entire house. ³For this Jesus was considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, so much so that the house which he has built holds a greater honor than the former one. ⁴For every house is built by someone, but God is the One who has created all things. ⁵And certainly Moses was faithful, with his entire house, like any servant, as a testimony to those things that would soon be said. ⁶Yet truly, Christ is like a Son in his own house. We are that house, if we firmly retain the faithfulness and the glory of hope, even unto the end.

¹“So then, if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so as to keep and do all of his commandments, which I instruct to you this day, the Lord your God will cause you to be more exalted than all the nations which exist upon the earth. ²And all these blessings shall come to you and take hold of you, but only if you listen to his precepts. ³Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed in the field. ⁴Blessed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, and the fruit of your cattle, the droves of your herds, and the folds of your sheep. ⁵Blessed shall be your barns, and blessed your storehouses. ⁶Blessed shall you be entering and departing.

¹⁴And the Lord said, “My face will precede you, and I will give you rest.”

¹¹Therefore, let us hasten to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall into the same example of unbelief.

¹⁰For whoever has entered into his rest, the same has also rested from his works, just as God did from his.