Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
As if our apostle had said, "Seeing there is such and eternal glorious rest prepared for, and promised to believers then it is the duty, and ought to be the endeavour of everyone of us to secure our title to it, and our interest in it, by a stedfast faith, and persevering obedience, lest, following the example of our forefathers in the wilderness, we fall...
Labour now to enter that rest, for this is the only way to it; those who will not work now shall not rest hereafter. The sleep of the labouring man is sweet, and labour now will make that rest more pleasant when it comes. Call upon one another to this diligence, for their lost and restless souls crying from torment call loudly upon us not to follow them into the same unbelief.
AI summary
Commenting on Hebrews 4:11-16
Verse 11. Let us labour therefore. Let us earnestly strive. Since there is a rest whose attainment is worth all our efforts; since so many have failed of reaching it by their unbelief; and since there is so much danger that we may fail of it also, let us give all diligence that we may enter into it.