003:012 see to it, brethren, that there is never in any one of you--
as perhaps there may be--a sinful and unbelieving heart,
manifesting itself in revolt from the ever-living God.
003:013 On the contrary encourage one another, day after day, so long
as To-day lasts, so that not one of you may be hardened
through the deceitful character of sin.
003:014 For we have, all alike, become sharers with Christ, if we
really hold our first confidence firm to the End;
003:015 seeing that the warning still comes to us, "To-day, if you
hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as your forefathers
did in the time of the provocation."
003:016 For who were they that heard, and yet provoked God? Was it
not the whole of the people who had come out of Egypt under
the leadership of Moses?
003:017 And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years?
Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies
fell in the Desert?
003:018 And to whom did He swear that they should not be admitted
to His rest, if it was not to those who were disobedient?
003:019 And so we see that it was owing to lack of faith that they
could not be admitted.
004:001 Therefore let us be on our guard lest perhaps, while He
still leaves us a promise of being admitted to His rest,
some one of you should be found to have fallen short of it.
004:002 For Good News has been brought to us as truly as to them;
but the message they heard failed to benefit them, because they
were not one in faith with those who gave heed to it.
004:003 We who have believed are soon to be admitted to the true rest;
as He has said, "As I swore in My anger, they shall not be
admitted to My rest," although God's works had been going
on ever since the creation of the world.
004:004 For, as we know, when speaking of the seventh day He has
used the words, "And God rested on the seventh day from
all His works;"