The Sabbath Rest
Genesis 2:1–3; Exodus 16:22–30
1We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,+ 2for 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,+ 3for 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,+ 4for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'+ 5and in this place again, `If they shall enter into My rest--;'+ 6since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief--+ 7again 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,'+ 8for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;+ 9there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,+ 10for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.+ 11May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,+