{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/hebrews/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:14:42.161Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Hebrews","bookSlug":"hebrews","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"for we do enter into the rest — we who did believe, as He said, 'So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest — ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day thus: 'And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"and in this place again, 'If they shall enter into My rest — ;'"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief — "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"again He doth limit a certain day, 'To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes — with whom is our reckoning."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens — Jesus the Son of God — may we hold fast the profession,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner — apart from sin;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace — for seasonable help."}],"citation":{"inline":"Hebrews 4 (YLT)","markdown":"[Hebrews 4](https://primebible.com/ylt/hebrews/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/hebrews/4 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}