Jacob 1:7

Wherefore, we laboured diligently among our people, that we might persuade them to come unto Christ, and partake of the goodness of God, that they might enter into his rest, lest by any means he should swear in his wrath they should not enter in, as in the provocation in the days of temptation, while the children of Israel were in the wilderness.

So we worked hard among our people. We tried to get them to come to Christ and share in God’s goodness. We wanted them to enter his rest. We didn’t want God to be angry with them like he was with the Israelites in the wilderness.

So we worked hard among our people, urging them to come to Christ and experience God’s goodness—to enter into his rest. We didn’t want God to swear in his anger that they couldn’t enter, the way he did with Israel in the wilderness when they tested him and hardened their hearts.