There still exists, therefore, a full and complete rest for the people of God.

And he who experiences his real rest is resting from his own work as fully as God from his.

Let us then be eager to know this rest for ourselves,

and let us beware that no one misses it through falling into the same kind of unbelief as those we have mentioned.

For the Word that God speaks is alive and active;

it cuts more keenly than any two-edged sword:

it strikes through to the place where soul and spirit meet,

to the innermost intimacies of a man’s being:

it exposes the very thoughts and motives of a man’s heart.

No creature has any cover from the sight of God;

everything lies naked and exposed before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Seeing that we have a great High Priest who has entered the inmost Heaven,

Jesus the Son of God,

let us hold firmly to our faith.

For we have no superhuman High Priest to whom our weaknesses are unintelligible

—he himself has shared fully in all our experience of temptation, except that he never sinned.

Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with fullest confidence,

that we may receive mercy for our failures and grace to help in the hour of need.

(Hebrews 4:13 – 17)