We have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.
As it is said, ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.’
Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
But with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?
So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
For indeed the 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.
For we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, ‘As in my anger I swore, "They shall not enter my rest" ’, though his works were finished at the foundation of the world.
For in one place it speaks about the seventh day as follows: ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.’
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