The wise are cautious and turn away from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is careless.
Hebrews 4:1 - New Revised Standard Version Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should seem to have failed to reach it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THEREFORE, WHILE the promise of entering His rest still holds and is offered [today], let us be afraid [to distrust it], lest any of you should think he has come too late and has come short of [reaching] it. American Standard Version (1901) Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. Common English Bible Therefore, since the promise that we can enter into rest is still open, let’s be careful so that none of you will appear to miss it. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, we should be afraid, lest the promise of entering into his rest may be relinquished, and some of you may be judged to be lacking. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let us fear therefore lest the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting. |
The wise are cautious and turn away from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is careless.
Happy is the one who is never without fear, but one who is hard-hearted will fall into calamity.
I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me.
According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.”
Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out,
That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.
As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.
You who want to be justified by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, and through it many become defiled.
See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking; for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!
Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall through such disobedience as theirs.
Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: ‘I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever’; but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.