3. For we who have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4. For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God rested the seventh day from all his works.
5. And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter into it, and they to whom it was first preached entered not because of unbelief:
7. (Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To-day, after so long a time; as it is said, To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8. For if Jesus had given them rest, then he would not afterward have spoken of another day.
9. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10. For he that hath entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.)
11. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12. For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.