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(A) In fact, somewhere the Scriptures say that by the seventh day, God had finished his work, and so he rested. (B) We also read that he later said, “You people will never enter my place of rest!” This means that the promise to enter is still good, because those who first heard about it disobeyed and did not enter.

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For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”[a](A) And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”(B)

Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience,(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:4 Gen. 2:2