Let us fear therefore, lest, a promise being left of entering into His  ¹rest, any one of you may  ²seem to have  ³come short of it.

For indeed we have had the good news announced to us, even as they also; but the word heard did not profit them,  ¹not being mixed together with faith in those who heard.

For we who have believed enter into the rest, even as He has said, “As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest!” although the works of creation were completed from the foundation of the world.

For He has spoken somewhere concerning the seventh day thus, “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works.”

And in this place again, “They shall not enter into My rest!”

Since therefore it remains that some should enter into it and those who formerly had the good news announced to them did not enter because of  ¹disobedience,

He again designates a certain day, today, saying in David after so long a time, even as He has said before, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”

For if  ¹Joshua had brought them into rest, He would not have spoken concerning  ²another day after these things.

So then there remains a  ¹Sabbath rest for the people of God.

For he who has entered into His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His own.

Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest lest anyone  ¹fall  ²after the same example of  ³disobedience.

For the  ¹word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of  ²soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the  ³thoughts and intentions of the heart.

And there is no creature that is not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we are to give our account.

Having therefore a  ¹great  ²High Priest who has  ³passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the  ⁴confession.

For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all respects like us, yet without sin.

Let us therefore come forward with boldness to the  ¹throne of grace that we may receive  ²mercy and find grace for timely help.

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is established on behalf of men in the things pertaining to God that he may offer both  ¹gifts and  ¹sacrifices for sins.

He is able to exercise  ¹compassion toward the ignorant and erring since he also is encompassed with weakness;

And because of it, he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

And no one takes the honor upon himself, but only as he is called by God, just as Aaron also was.

So also Christ did not  ¹glorify Himself in becoming a High Priest, but it was He who said to Him, “You are My Son; this day have I  ²begotten You”;

Even as also in another place He says,  ¹“You are a Priest forever according to the  ²order of Melchizedek.”

This One, in the days of His flesh, having offered up both petitions and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him  ¹out of death and having been heard because of His piety,

Even though He was a Son, learned  ¹obedience from the things which He suffered.

And having been  ¹perfected, He became to all those who obey Him the  ²source of  ³eternal salvation,

Being  ¹addressed by God as a High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek;

Concerning whom we have much to say that is also difficult to interpret since you have become dull of hearing.

For when because of the time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you what the  ¹rudiments of the beginning of the  ²oracles of God are and have become those who have need of  ³milk and not of solid food.

For everyone who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the  ¹word of righteousness, for he is an infant;

But solid food is for the full-grown, who because of practice have their  ¹faculties exercised for discriminating between both  ²good and evil.

Therefore leaving the  ¹word of the  ²beginning of Christ, let us  ³be brought on to  ⁴maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith in God,

Of the teaching of  ¹baptisms and of the laying on of hands, of the resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment.

And  ¹this we will do if God permits.

For it is  ¹impossible for those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the  ²heavenly gift and have become  ³partakers of the Holy Spirit

And have tasted the good  ¹word of God and the  ²powers of the age to come,

And yet have  ¹fallen away, to renew themselves again unto repentance,  ²crucifying again for themselves the Son of God and putting Him to open shame.

For the earth, which drinks the  ¹rain which often comes upon it and  ²produces vegetation suitable to those for whose sake also it is cultivated, partakes of blessing from God.

But if it brings forth  ¹thorns and thistles, it is  ²disapproved and  ³near a curse, whose end is to be  ⁴burned.

But we are persuaded of better things concerning you, beloved, and  ¹things which belong to  ²salvation, though we speak thus.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name in having  ¹ministered to the saints and in ministering still.

But we desire earnestly that each of you show the same diligence unto the full assurance of our hope until the end,

That you may not be  ¹sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and long-suffering are inheriting the promises.

For God, when He made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, swore by Himself,

Saying, “Surely blessing, I will bless you; and multiplying, I will multiply you.”

And thus when Abraham had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

For men swear by the greater, and for all disputes among them an oath is final for confirmation.

Therefore God, intending to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His counsel, interposed with an oath,

In order that by  ¹two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, we who have  ²fled for  ³refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us,

Which we have as an  ¹anchor of the soul, both secure and firm and which  ²enters within the veil,

Where the  ¹Forerunner, Jesus, has entered for us, having become forever a High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.