Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, [with the result that you] fall away from the living God.

And with whom was he angry [for] forty years? [Was it] not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

Therefore let us fear, [while there] remains a promise of entering into his rest, that none of you appear to fall short of [it].

Therefore, let us make every effort to enter into that rest, in order that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience.

And we desire each one of you to demonstrate the same diligence for the full assurance of [your] hope until the end,

And they will not teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

let us approach with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled [clean] from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

[It is] a terrifying [thing] to fall into the hands of the living God.

By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down [after they] had been marched around for seven days.

And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, and Samuel and the prophets,

Remember the prisoners, as [though you were] fellow-prisoners; [remember] the mistreated, as [though] [you] yourselves also are being [mistreated] in the body.