So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest.

And to whom did he swear were not going to enter into his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?

So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest—the promised land] because of unbelief and an unwillingness to trust in God.

Let us be afraid therefore, lest, a promise being left behind to enter into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short.

For those who believe enter into that rest, just as he said, So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest, although the works occurred from the foundation of the world.

For in one place he has said of the seventh day, And God had rest from all his works on the seventh day;

and in this again, They will not enter into my rest.

Therefore, since the promise remains for some to enter His rest, and those who formerly had the good news preached to them failed to [grasp it and did not] enter because of [their unbelief evidenced by] disobedience,

He again sets a definite day, [a new] “Today,” [providing another opportunity to enter that rest by] saying through David after so long a time, just as has been said before [in the words already quoted],

“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these things.

So a sabbath of rest is still awaiting God's people.

For a man who has entered into his rest, he has also rested from his works, as God did from his own.

Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, so that not any man may fall by the same example of disobedience.

And in the one case, men here [on earth, that is, the Levites] who die, collect a tenth [from the rest of the Israelites], but there [i.e., in the case of Melchizedek] it is collected by someone about whom it is declared [by Scripture] that he continues to live.

And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.

For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine [retribution and the deliverance of justice rest with Me], I will repay [the wrongdoer].” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;