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Hebrews 4

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1Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. ✦ 2For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. ✦ 3For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. ✦ 4For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; ✦ 5and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” ✦ 6Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, ✦ 7again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” ✦ 8For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. ✦ 9There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. ✦ 10For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. ✦ 11Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. ✦ 12For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ✦ 13And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. ✦ 14Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. ✦ 15For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. ✦ 16Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Concept The Great High Priest

Where this chapter connects

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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