For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. ¹  Let them do this ²  with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.

And, “You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, ¹  and the heavens are the works of your hands.

equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us ¹  what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. ²  Amen.

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,” ¹ 

For the one who enters God’s ¹  rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

And no one assumes this honor ¹  on his own initiative, ²  but only when called to it by God, ³  as in fact Aaron was.

Now Moses was faithful in all God’s ¹  house ²  as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” ¹  And yet God’s works ²  were accomplished from the foundation of the world.