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For it is we who have trusted who enter the rest.

It is just as he said,

“And in my anger, I swore
that they would not enter my rest.”[a]

He swore this even though his works have been in existence since the founding of the universe. For there is a place where it is said, concerning the seventh day,

“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”[b]

And once more, our present text says,

“They will not enter my rest.”[c]

Therefore, since it still remains for some to enter it, and those who received the Good News earlier did not enter, he again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David, so long afterwards, in the text already given,

“Today, if you hear God’s voice, don’t harden your hearts.”[d]

For if Y’hoshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later of another “day.”

So there remains a Shabbat-keeping for God’s people. 10 For the one who has entered God’s rest has also rested from his own works, as God did from his.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:3 Psalm 95:11
  2. Hebrews 4:4 Genesis 2:2
  3. Hebrews 4:5 Psalm 95:11
  4. Hebrews 4:7 Psalm 95:7–8

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