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Hebrews 4

The wilderness warning of chapter 3 becomes a sustained meditation on "rest." The good news reached the exodus generation too, but it didn't profit them because it wasn't mixed with faith. The writer then layers three rests: creation's seventh day, Canaan under Joshua, and a rest still open today. Since Joshua's conquest wasn't the final rest — God still names "today" through David long after — a Sabbath rest remains for God's people. The exhortation: give diligence to enter it, and don't repeat the old disobedience.

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Hebrews 4 (WEB)

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Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
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For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.
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For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
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For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”
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and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.”
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Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,
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he again defines a certain day, “today”, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”
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For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
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There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
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For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
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Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
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For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
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Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.
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For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
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Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

Hebreos 4 (RV1909)

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TEMAMOS, pues, que quedando aún la promesa de entrar en su reposo, parezca alguno de vosotros haberse apartado.
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Porque también á nosotros se nos ha evangelizado como á ellos; mas no les aprovechó el oir la palabra á los que la oyeron sin mezclar fe.
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Empero entramos en el reposo los que hemos creído, de la manera que dijo: Como juré en mi ira, no entrarán en mi reposo: aun acabadas las obras desde el principio del mundo.
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Porque en un cierto lugar dijo así del séptimo día: Y reposó Dios de todas sus obras en el séptimo día.
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Y otra vez aquí: No entrarán en mi reposo.
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Así que, pues que resta que algunos han de entrar en él, y aquellos á quienes primero fué anunciado no entraron por causa de desobediencia,
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Determina otra vez un cierto día, diciendo por David: Hoy, después de tanto tiempo; como está dicho: Si oyereis su voz hoy, no endurezcáis vuestros corazones.
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Porque si Josué les hubiera dado el reposo, no hablaría después de otro día.
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Por tanto, queda un reposo para el pueblo de Dios.
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Porque el que ha entrado en su reposo, también él ha reposado de sus obras, como Dios de las suyas.
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Procuremos pues de entrar en aquel reposo; que ninguno caiga en semejante ejemplo de desobediencia.
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Porque la palabra de Dios es viva y eficaz, y más penetrante que toda espada de dos filos: y que alcanza hasta partir el alma, y aun el espíritu, y las coyunturas y tuétanos, y discierne los pensamientos y las intenciones del corazón.
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Y no hay cosa criada que no sea manifiesta en su presencia; antes todas las cosas están desnudas y abiertas á los ojos de aquel á quien tenemos que dar cuenta.
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Por tanto, teniendo un gran Pontífice, que penetró los cielos, Jesús el Hijo de Dios, retengamos nuestra profesión.
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Porque no tenemos un Pontífice que no se pueda compadecer de nuestras flaquezas; mas tentado en todo según nuestra semejanza, pero sin pecado.
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Lleguémonos pues confiadamente al trono de la gracia, para alcanzar misericordia, y hallar gracia para el oportuno socorro.

From warning back to the priest

Verses 12–13 pivot on the word of God as a living, two-edged sword that exposes the heart — no creature hidden from the one to whom we give account. That sobering image hands straight into verse 14's relief: we have a great high priest, Jesus, who passed through the heavens and was tempted as we are yet without sin. The chapter closes inviting bold approach to the throne of grace.