DB1 | A Rest for the People of God Hb.3.7-4.13 | NEB Contents | notes| 3 | New English Bible (New Testament) | Passage | New Testament in Greek (UBS.Ed.26) |
| 7 | 'TODAY', THEREFORE, as the Holy Spirit says—
| A Rest for the People of God Hb.3.7-4.13 | Διό, καθὼς λέγει τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἀγιον, Σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε, |
| 8 | Do not grow stubborn as in those days of rebellion, at that time of testing in the desert, | - do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion Hb.3.8 | Ex.17.7 | Lv.20.2 | μὴ σκληρύνητε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν ὡς ἐν τῷ παραπικρασμῷ, κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν τοῦ πειρασμοῦ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, |
| 9 | where your forefathers tried me and tested me, and saw Or: though they saw ... the things I did for forty years. | οὗ ἐπείρασαν οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ καὶ εἶδον τὰ ἔργα μου (10)τεσσεράκοντα ἔτη· | |
| 10 | And so, I was indignant with that generation and I said. Their hearts are for ever astray, they would not discern my ways; | διὸ προσώχθισα τῇ γενεᾷ ταύτῃ καὶ εἶπον, Ἀεὶ πλανῶνται τῇ καρδίᾳ· αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὰς ὁδούς μου· | |
| 11 | as I vowed in my anger, they shall never enter my rest.' | - They shall never enter my rest. Hb.3.11 | Lv.14.21-23 | ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου, Εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου. |
| 12 | See to it, brothers, that no one among you has the wicked, faithless heart of a deserter from the living God; | Βλέπετε, ἀδελφοί, μήποτε ἐσται ἐν τινι ὑμῶν καρδία πονηρὰ ἀπιστίας ἐν τῷ ἀποστῆναι ἀπὸ θεοῦ ζῶντος, | |
| 13 | but day by day, while that word 'Today' still sounds in your ears, encourage one another, so that no one of you is made stubborn by the wiles of sin. | ἀλλὰ παρακαλεῖτε ἑαυτοὺς καθ' ἑκάστην ἡμέραν, ἀχρις οὗ τὸ Σήμερον καλεῖται, ἵνα μὴ σκληρυνθῇ τις ἐξ ὑμῶν ἀπάτῃ τῆς ἀμαρτίας· | |
| 14 | For we have become Christ's partners Or: have been given a share in Christ. if only we keep our original confidence firm to the end. | μέτοχοι γὰρ τοῦ Χριστοῦ γεγόναμεν, ἐάνπερ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς ὑποστάσεως μέχρι τέλους βεβαίαν κατάσχωμεν, | |
| 15 | When Scripture says, 'Today if you hear his voice, do not grow stubborn as in those days of rebellion', | - Today, when you hear his voice Hb.3.15 | Ps.95.7-8 | ἐν τῷ λέγεσθαι, Σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε, |
| 16 | who, I ask, were those who heard and rebelled? All those, surely, whom Moses had led out of Egypt. | τίνες γὰρ ἀκούσαντες παρεπίκραναν; ἀλλ' οὐ πάντες οἱ ἐξελθόντες ἐξ Αἰγύπτου διὰ Μωϋσέως; | |
| 17 | And with whom was God indignant for forty years? With those, surely, who had sinned, whose bodies lay where they fell in the desert. | - And with whom was he provoked forty years? Hb.3.17 | Lv.14.29 | τίσιν δὲ προσώχθισεν τεσσεράκοντα ἔτη; οὐχὶ τοῖς ἀμαρτήσασιν, ὧν τὰ κῶλα ἔπεσεν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ; |
| 18 | And to whom did he vow that they should not enter his rest, if not to those who had refused to believe? | - And to whom did he swear Hb.3.18 | Lv.14.22-23 | τίσιν δὲ ὤμοσεν μὴ εἰσελεύσεσθαι εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσιν αὐτοῦ εἰ μὴ τοῖς ἀπειθήσασιν; |
| 19 | We perceive that it was unbelief which prevented their entering. | καὶ βλέπομεν ὅτι οὐκ ἠδυνήθησαν εἰσελθεῖν δῖ ἀπιστίαν. | |
| 4 1 | Therefore we must have before us the fear that while the promise of entering his rest remains open, one or another among you should be found to have missed his chance. | Φοβηθῶμεν οὖν μήποτε καταλειπομένης ἐπαγγελίας εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσιν αὐτοῦ δοκῇ τις ἐξ ὑμῶν ὑστερηκέναι· | |
| 2 | For indeed we have heard the good news, as they did. But in them the message they heard did no good, because it met with no faith in those who heard of it. | καὶ γάρ ἐσμεν εὐηγγελισμένοι καθάπερ κἀκεῖνοι, ἀλλ' οὐκ ὠφέλησεν ὁ λόγος τῆς ἀκοῆς ἐκείνους, μὴ συγκεκερασμένους τῇ πίστει τοῖς ἀκούσασιν. | |
| 3 | It is we, we who have become believers, who enter the rest referred to in the words, 'As I vowed in my anger, they shall never enter my rest.' Yet God's work has been finished ever since the world was created; | - As I swore in my wrath Hb.4.3 | Ps.95.11 | εἰσερχόμεθα γὰρ εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσιν οἱ πιστεύσαντες, καθὼς εἰρηκεν, Ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου, |
| 4 | for does not Scripture somewhere speak thus of the seventh day: 'God rested from his work on the seventh day'?— | - And God rested on the seventh day Hb.4.4 | Gn.2.2 | εἰρηκεν γάρ που περὶ τῆς ἑβδόμης οὑτως, Kαὶ κατέπαυσεν ὁ θεὸς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ· |
| 5 | and once again in the passage above we read, 'They shall never enter my rest.' | - They shall never enter my rest. Hb.4.5 | Ps.95.11 | καὶ ἐν τούτῳ πάλιν, Εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου. |
| 6 | The fact remains that someone must enter it, and since those who first heard the good news failed to enter through unbelief, | ἐπεὶ οὖν ἀπολείπεται τινὰς εἰσελθεῖν εἰς αὐτήν, καὶ οἱ πρότερον εὐαγγελισθέντες οὐκ εἰσῆλθον δῖ ἀπείθειαν, | |
| 7 | God fixes another day. Speaking through the lips of David after many long years, he uses the words already quoted: 'Today if you hear his voice, do not grow stubborn.' | - Today, when you hear his voice Hb.4.7-11 | Ps.95.7-8 | πάλιν τινὰ ὁρίζει ἡμέραν, Σήμερον, ἐν Δαυὶδ λέγων μετὰ τοσοῦτον χρόνον, καθὼς προείρηται, Σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε, |
| 8 | If Joshua had given them rest. God would not thus have spoken of another day after that. | εἰ γὰρ αὐτοὺς Ἰησοῦς κατέπαυσεν, οὐκ ἂν περὶ ἀλλης ἐλάλει μετὰ ταῦτα ἡμέρας. | |
| 9 | Therefore, a sabbath rest still awaits the people of God; | ἀρα ἀπολείπεται σαββατισμὸς τῷ λαῷ τοῦ θεοῦ· | |
| 10 | for anyone who enters God's rest, rests from his own work as God did from his. | ὁ γὰρ εἰσελθὼν εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ αὐτὸς κατέπαυσεν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐργων αὐτοῦ ὡσπερ ἀπὸ τῶν ἰδίων ὁ θεός. | |
| 11 | Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following this evil example of unbelief. | σπουδάσωμεν οὖν εἰσελθεῖν εἰς ἐκείνην τὴν κατάπαυσιν, ἵνα μὴ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ τις ὑποδείγματι πέσῃ τῆς ἀπειθείας. | |
| 12 | For the word of God is alive and active. It cuts more keenly than any two-edged sword, piercing as far as the place where life and spirit, joints and marrow, divide. It sifts the purposes and thoughts of the heart. | Ζῶν γὰρ ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἐνεργὴς καὶ τομώτερος ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν μάχαιραν δίστομον καὶ διϊκνούμενος ἀχρι μερισμοῦ ψυχῆς καὶ πνεύματος, ἀρμῶν τε καὶ μυελῶν, καὶ κριτικὸς ἐνθυμ ήσεων καὶ ἐννοιῶν καρδίας· | |
| 13 | There is nothing in creation that can hide from him; everything lies naked and exposed to the eyes of the One with whom we have to reckon. | καὶ οὐκ ἐστιν κτίσις ἀφανὴς ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ, πάντα δὲ γυμνὰ καὶ τετραχηλισμένα τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ, πρὸς ὃν ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος. | |