Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.”
For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.
Let it be known to you then that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.”
So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God;
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”
You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord God will slay you; but his servants he will call by a different name.
But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; from now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.