The Promise of God’s Rest Remains

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We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

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for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

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for we do enter into the rest--we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

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for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

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and in this place again, `If they shall enter into My rest--;'

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since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief--

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again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

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for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;

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there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

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for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

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May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

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