o long as it is called to-day; lest
any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin: for we are
become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our
confidence firm unto the end: while it is said,

To-day if ye shall hear His voice,
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that
came out of Egypt by Moses? And with whom was He displeased forty
years? was it not with them that sinned, whose carcases fell in the
wilderness? And to whom sware He that they should not enter into His
rest, but to them that were disobedient? And we see that they were
not able to enter in because of unbelief.

Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering
into His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.
For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also
they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because they were
not united by faith with them that heard. For we which have believed
do enter into that rest; even as He hath said,

As I sware in My wrath,
They shall not enter into My rest:

although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
For He hath said somewhere of the seventh _day_ on this wise, And
God rested on the seventh day from all His works; and in this
_place_ again,

They shall not enter into My rest.

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and
they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter
in because of disobedience, He again defineth a certain day, saying
in David, after so long a time, To-day, as it hath been before said,

To-day if ye shall hear His voice,
Harden not your hearts.

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken
afterward of another day. There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest
for the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest hath
himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. Let us
therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall
after the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is
living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and
piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and
marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts a