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- Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you might seem to have failed [of it].
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- For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also;
but the word of the report did not profit *them*, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.
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- For we enter into the rest who have believed;
as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from [the] foundation of [the] world.
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- For he has said somewhere of the seventh [day] thus, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works:
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- and in this again, If they shall enter into my rest.
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- Seeing therefore it remains that some enter into it, and those who first received the glad tidings did not enter in on account of not hearkening to the word,
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- again he determines a certain day, saying, in David, 'To-day,' after so long a time;
(according as it has been said before), To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
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- For if Jesus had brought them into rest, he would not have spoken afterwards about another day.
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- There remains then a sabbatism to the people of God.
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- For he that has entered into his rest, he also has rested from his works, as God did from his own.
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- Let us therefore use diligence to enter into that rest, that no one may fall after the same example of not hearkening to the word.
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- For the word of God [is] living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to [the] division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of [the] heart.
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- And there is not a creature unapparent before him;
but all things [are] naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have to do.
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- Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession.
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- For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart.
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- Let us approach therefore with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help.
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