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Hebrews 4

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From the REV  Hebrews 4:1-5 1 The promise of entering his rest still remains open. Let us fear, therefore, lest any of you fails to reach it. 2For indeed we have had Good News told to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not combined with trust in those who heard 3(for we who have believed enter into that rest), just as he has said, as I swore in my wrath, “They will not enter into my rest,” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spoke somewhere of the seventh day like this: And God rested on the seventh day from all his works , 5 and in this place again, They will not enter into my rest . The promise of entering his rest still remains open. Let us fear, therefore, lest any of you fails to reach it. “lest any of you fails to reach it.” The Greek text has the word dokeō (#1380 δοκέω), which can mean to seem, to think, to suppose, etc. This causes more literal versions such as the...