Hebrews 4:6 reads as follows: “It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience”. This verse begins with “oun epei” in the Greek (left out of the NIV translation), or “so then since”, here continuing on in the writer’s exposition of the reality of a different kind of rest to be found in the New Covenant. This leads into the present indicative of the verb kataleipo- “to remain or be left behind”, a statement of fact regarding a present reality. Though verse 5 concludes with the Old Testament reality of the fact that this type of rest was not available in the Old Covenant, this does not mean that rest has been done away with, but rather that rest is still available, but in a different form. We then find that this rest will be entered by “some” and not all. Some will enter this New Covenant rest and some will not, and the distinguishing factor is given here in the Greek term apeitheia, literally an absence of faith or unbelief. We must here note that this particular letter was written to a group of Hebrews who had come together in the name of Jesus Christ, but many of them had not left the rituals of the Old Covenant behind, had not left the Old Covenant Sabbath rest behind and entered into the rest of the New Covenant. They are compared here to the wilderness generation of the Old Covenant period, who” had the gospel preached to them”. In this case the good news was that God had given them the land, they just needed to go in and take it. Of course they failed to, and we are told this was due to their “unbelief” (apeitheia). So, we find here that rest still remains in the New Covenant (though of a different nature), and what also remains is the failure of many to enter it. What also remains, then, is the reason we may fail to enter it, unbelief, lack of trust in the good news of what God says. May we all trust in the good news of the New Covenant rest, and enter into it once and for all, not missing it as many of these Hebrews did.