For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,

To whom He said, "This [is] the rest [with which] You may cause the weary to rest," And, "This [is] the refreshing"; Yet they would not hear.

Thus says the LORD: "Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way [is,] And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk [in it.']

"Come to Me, all [you] who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

"Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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

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

Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed [it was] very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

For [in] six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: "I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world."

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you