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| 1 We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short, |
Into his rest – The rest of the fully consecrated. This rest is explained by Paul to be the kind of rest that natural Israel would have received when they first reached the land of promise had they been faithful and entered in to take the land. If their faith could have accepted that it was God who was fighting for them, then there would have been no question that they would conquer the land. God would have driven out the inhabitants before them. Exo. 23:20-33. |
| 2 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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| 3 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, |
As I sware...my rest – Because this is a quotation from Psa. 95:11 it is clear that the KJV is missing an extremely important word, i.e., the word "not." That portion should therefore read: "I have sworn in my wrath, they shall NOT enter into my rest." The following translations all carry this thought: ASV, BBE, CEV, ISV, MKJV, Murdock, RV, RVIC, WNT. |
| 4 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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| 5 and in this [place] again, 'If they shall enter into My rest ;' |
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| 6 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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| 7 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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| 8 for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things; |
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| 9 there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God, |
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| 10 for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own. |
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| 11 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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| 12 for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart; |
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| 13 and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things [are] naked and open to His eyes with whom is our reckoning. |
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| 14 Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens Jesus the Son of God may we hold fast the profession, |
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| 15 for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but [one] tempted in all things in like manner apart from sin; |
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| 16 we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace for seasonable help. |
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