Hebrews 4

1 Let us therefore hearken diligently (to hear His voice) with all reverence (and harden not our hearts) so that we (also) do not forsake (or depart from) the promise of entering into His rest, lest anyone would think they come short of the promise (of His life and immortality).

2 For unto us was the good news preached as well as unto them (that it is through God and His strength alone that we will enter into His promised rest): but the word they heard had no benefit to them, not being joined together (united) with the faith in them that heard it (and refused to rest in the promise even after seeing His works for forty years).

3 Because we which have believed (on the good work that God has done in Christ) do enter into (His) rest (and have ceased from our own works), as He said, As I have sworn in My passion (for the incorruptible life which only I can serve them with), being grieved, because they cannot enter into My rest (having sought it by their own works): although the works (which I have done for them to enter into) were finished from the foundation of the world (before death entered).

4 Because He spoke in this certain place about the seventh day, when it says; And God rested the seventh day from all His works (which works He prepared for us to walk therein).

5 And (He says) again in this place (in the wilderness) that they did not enter into My rest.

6 Therefore (we see that) there remains a rest for some to enter into (that causes them to cease from their own works), and they to whom the good news was first preached did not enter in because of their disobedience to the faith (who after seeing the work of God, refused to rest therein but continued to trust in their own works and perished in the wilderness):

7 And again, He speaks about another day, through David saying, today, after so long a time, as it is said; today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.

8 Because if Joshua had given them rest (where they ceased from their own works), then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.

9 There remains therefore a (Sabbath) rest (revealed in the faith of Jesus Christ) for the people of God (where they rest in His life and immortality and do no work, and He will be their God and they will be His people).

10 For he that has entered into that rest (which Christ’ death and resurrection brings), has also ceased from his own works, as God did from His.

11 Therefore we should be diligent (to hearken unto the faith of Jesus Christ) to enter into His rest, so that no one would fall (into the condemnation that death serves) after the same example of disobedience (in those who fell in the wilderness refusing God’s work for their own).

12 Because the word which God has spoken in (the faith of) Jesus Christ is alive (energized) and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, able to penetrate through both the soul and the spirit from the joints and marrow (of a man’s heart) and is the discerner of all the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

13 And there is not any creature hidden from before His eyes. But rather all things are uncovered and laid bare to Him who has (given) His word and testimony (about us).

14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, who is passed into the heavens (in glorified human flesh, forever free from death), Jesus the Son of God, let us continue to hold firm (to keep hearing the faith, so that) the confession (of our hearts be united together with His).

15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with the feeling of our death; but He was in all points tempted (by death) the same way we are, yet without ever enlisting His own ability to save Himself (but cried out to the One who could save Him from death).