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📚✭Therefore let us fear that, perhaps, having received a promise of entering his rest✭, any of you✭ should seem to come short of it. 2 📚✭For the gospel was preached to us, as well as to them. But the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.Joshua could not give the people true rest, but Christ does
3 📚✭For we who have believed enter into rest, as he said,
As I swore in my wrath,
if they will enter my rest.
And yet his works were finished from the beginning of the world. 4 📚✭For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day like this: And God ceased from all his works on the seventh day.
5 📚And in this place again, If they will enter my rest.
6 📚✭Seeing, therefore, it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief, 7 📚again, he appointed a certain day, saying through David,
“Today”, after so long a time, as it is said,
Today if you will hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.
8 📚For if Joshua had given them rest, then afterwards he would not have spoken of another day.
9 📚Therefore there remains a Sabbath-rest✭ for the people of God. 10 📚✭For he who has entered his rest, has also ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 📚✭Therefore, let us strive earnestly✭ to enter that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12 📚✭For the word of God is living and powerful✭, and sharper than any double edged sword✭, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 📚Nor is there any creature that is hidden from his sight✭. All things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we will give an account✭.
Christ is the great High Priest
14 📚✭Seeing then that we have a great high priest✭ who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us✭ hold fast our confession. 15 📚For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched✭ with the feeling of our weaknesses✭, but one who was tempted✭ in all points as we are, yet without sin.
16 📚Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace✭, so that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.