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Hebrews 4

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1Therefore, we must fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it. ✦ 2For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also did; but the word they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united with those who listened with faith. ✦ 3For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, “As I swore in My anger, They certainly shall not enter My rest,” although His works were finished from the foundation of the world. ✦ 4For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; ✦ 5and again in this passage, “They certainly shall not enter My rest.” ✦ 6Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who previously had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience, ✦ 7He again sets 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.” ✦ 8For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. ✦ 9Consequently, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. ✦ 10For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. ✦ 11Therefore let’s make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience. ✦ 12For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating 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. ✦ 13And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we must answer. ✦ 14Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let’s hold firmly to our confession. ✦ 15For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things just as we are, yet without sin. ✦ 16Therefore let’s approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for help at the time of our need. ✦

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Concept The Great High Priest

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Heb 3 ·14Heb 4 ·11Heb 2 ·5Matt 7 ·5Heb 9 ·4Heb 10 ·41 Pet 2 ·4Heb 7 ·4

Christ at the center

Hebrews is sustained worship of Christ: better than angels, Moses, and the priests; the great High Priest after Melchizedek who by one sacrifice perfects forever those he saves.

How Hebrews 4 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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