looking diligently, lest any one come short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and the many be thereby defiled;

Remember your leaders, who spoke to you the word of God; and considering well the end of their manner of life, imitate their faith.

Be it so. It was for their unbelief that they were broken off, and thou standest through thy faith; be not highminded, but fear.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.

A promise

There remaineth therefore a sabbathrest to the people of God.

For what? If some were unfaithful, shall their unfaithfulness make God unfaithful?

if we are faithless, he remaineth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.

His

For we who believed enter into the rest, as he hath said: "So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

so I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest."

Any

Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

But if the bad servant say in his heart, My lord is tarrying long;

Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

But if that servant say in his heart, My lord is long in coming; and begin to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and be drunken,

When once the master of the house shall have risen, and shut the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I know not whence ye are;

For all have sinned, and fail of obtaining the glory which cometh from God;

I therefore so run, not as one uncertain; I so fight, not as one striking the air;

General references

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

And great fear came upon all the church, and upon all that heard of these things.