Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.

Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,