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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Hebrews 4 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hebrews/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/hebrews/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Hebrews 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hebrews/3.htm" title="Hebrews 3">◄</a> Hebrews 4 <a href="../hebrews/5.htm" title="Hebrews 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/hebrews/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Promised Rest for God’s People</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God said, </p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“In my anger I took an oath:</p><p class="line2">‘They will never enter my place of rest,’”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="m">even though this rest has been ready since he made the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But in the other passage God said, “They will never enter my place of rest.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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: </p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“Today when you hear his voice,</p><p class="line2">don’t harden your hearts.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So there is a special rest<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> still waiting for the people of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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.</p><p class="hdg">Christ Is Our High Priest</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">they didn’t combine what they heard with faith.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Ps 95:11.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Gen 2:2.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:5 </span><span class="ft">Ps 95:11.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Ps 95:7-8.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">a Sabbath rest.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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