52 lines
2.3 KiB
Markdown
52 lines
2.3 KiB
Markdown
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## The Believer's Rest
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###### 1
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Therefore, let us fear, lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have fallen short of it.
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###### 2
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For indeed we have had good news proclaimed to us, just as they also; but the word that was heard did not profit those who were not united with faith among those who heard.
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###### 3
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For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, "As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest," although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.
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###### 4
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For He has spoken somewhere in this way concerning the seventh _day_: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works";
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###### 5
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and again in this _passage_, "They shall not enter My rest."
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###### 6
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Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news proclaimed to them failed to enter because of disobedience,
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###### 7
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He again determines a certain day, "Today," saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, "Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts."
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###### 8
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For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.
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###### 9
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So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
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###### 10
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For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.
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###### 11
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Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall into the same example of disobedience.
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###### 12
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For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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###### 13
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And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are uncovered and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we have an account _to give_.
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## Jesus Our Great High Priest
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###### 14
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Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us take hold of our confession.
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###### 15
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For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things like _we are, yet_ without sin.
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###### 16
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Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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