Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, lest anyone falls in the same example of disobedience.

On account of this we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which in the beginning was spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard [Him],

looking diligently lest anyone fall from the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness growing up cause trouble, and through this many be defiled;

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, having refused Him who warned [them], how much more [shall we not escape] if we turn away from Him who warns from heaven;

Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you, of whom considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.

A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool trusts in himself, and joins himself with the transgressor.

Blessed is the man who religiously fears always, but the hard of heart shall fall into mischief.

And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put My fear into their heart, that they may not depart from Me.

Well [said]. By unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.

So then, let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he should fall!

Then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

According to the number of the days during which you spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, you shall bear your sins forty years, and you shall know My fierce anger.

Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: I said, Your house and the house of your father shall pass before Me forever: but now the Lord says, Far be it from Me; for I will only honor them that honor Me, and he that despises Me shall be despised.

For what if some did not believe? [Surely] their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God?

Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar, just as it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, and You may overcome when You are judged."

If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as He has said: "So I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest," although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.

and again in this place: "They shall not enter My rest."

So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'"

"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.

"And then I will confess to them, 'I never knew you! Depart from Me, you who work iniquity!'

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My master is delaying to come,'

the master of that servant will come on a day which he does not expect, and in an hour which he does not know,

"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who having taken their lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom.

Those who [were] foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them,

But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

the master of that servant will come on a day which he does not expect, and at an hour which he does not know, and he will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

When once the Master of the house has risen up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open for us,' and answering He will say to you, 'I do not know you, where you are from.'

But He will say, 'I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.'

And they will come from the east and the west, and the north and the south, and will recline [to eat] in the kingdom of God.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Therefore I run thus: not as without a goal, thus I box: not as one beating the air.

But I treat my body roughly, and I bring it into subjection, lest, having preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.