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New Living Translation (NLT)

Hebrews 4
³ For only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God said, “In my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest,’” even though this rest has been ready since he made the world.
⁴ We know it is ready because of the place in the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day: “On the seventh day God rested from all his work.”
⁵ But in the other passage God said, “They will never enter my place of rest.”
⁶ So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God.
⁷ So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David much later in the words already quoted: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”
⁸ Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come.
⁹ So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God.
¹⁰ For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.
¹¹ So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.
¹² For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.
¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes, and he is the one to whom we are accountable.