looking carefully, lest there be any one falling short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness, springing up, trouble you, and through it many be defiled;

Remember those who are your leaders, who spake to you the word of God; and, considering the issue of whose manner of life, imitate their faith.

Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, but you have been standing by faith. Do not cherish lofty thoughts; but fear.

Wherefore, let him who thinks he is standing take heed, lest he fall.

A promise

Consequently, there remains a sabbath-keeping for the people of God.

For what, if some did disbelieve? Shall their disbelief make void the faithfulness of God?

if we are faithless, He remaineth faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

His

For we who believed do enter into rest, even as He said, "As I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest; although the works were finished from the founding of a world."

as I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest.'"

Any

"Not every one who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that does the will of My Father in Heaven.

But, if that evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying,'

"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be likened to ten virgins, who, taking their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom.

But, if that servant should say in his heart, My lord is delaying to come, and shall begin to beat the manservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

When the Householder rises and shuts 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 you not, whence ye are;'

for all sinned, and are coming short of the glory of God;

I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air.

General references

But many that are first shall be last, and last first."

And great fear came upon the whole assembly, and upon all who heard these things.