1 God’s promise that we may enter his place of rest still stands. We are afraid that some of you think you won’t enter his place of rest.
2 We have heard the same Good News that your ancestors heard. But the message didn’t help those who heard it in the past because they didn’t believe.
3 We who believe are entering that place of rest. As God said, “So I angrily took a solemn oath that they would never enter my place of rest.” God said this even though he had finished his work when he created the world.
4 Somewhere in Scripture God has said this about the seventh day: “On the seventh day God rested from all his work.”
5 God also said in the same passage, “They will never enter my place of rest.”
6 However, some people enter that place of rest. Those who heard the Good News in the past did not enter God’s place of rest because they did not obey God.