[3:7] Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,
[3:8] do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
[3:9] where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
[3:10] Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’
[3:11] As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
[3:12] Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
[3:13] But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
[3:14] For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
[3:15] As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
[3:16] For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?
[3:17] And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
[3:18] And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
[3:19] So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
[4:1] Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
[4:2] For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
[4:3] For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
[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.”
[4:5] And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.”
[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,
[4:7] again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
[4:8] For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.
[4:9] So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
[4:10] for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
[4:11] Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
[4:12] For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
[4:13] And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.