1. Therefore, let us be on our guard while the promise of entering into his rest remains, that none of you seem to have failed.
2. For in fact we have received the good news just as they did. But the word that they heard did not profit them, for they were not united in faith with those who listened.
3. For we who believed enter into [that] rest, just as he has said:“As I swore in my wrath,‘They shall not enter into my rest,’”and yet his works were accomplished at the foundation of the world.
4. For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this manner, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;
5. and again, in the previously mentioned place, “They shall not enter into my rest.”
6. Therefore, since it remains that some will enter into it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,
7. he once more set a day, “today,” when long afterwards he spoke through David, as already quoted:“Oh, that today you would hear his voice:‘Harden not your hearts.’”