| 1 | Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly call, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession. |
| 2 | He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in God's house. |
| 3 | Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house. |
| 4 | (For every house is built by some one, but the builder of all things is God.) |
| 5 | Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, |
| 6 | but Christ was faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope. |
| 7 | Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, when you hear his voice, |
| 8 | do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, |
| 9 | where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. |
| 10 | Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, `They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.' |
| 11 | As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest.'" |
| 12 | Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. |
| 13 | But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. |
| 14 | For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end, |
| 15 | while it is said, "Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." |
| 16 | Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? |
| 17 | And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? |
| 18 | And to whom did he swear that they should never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? |
| 19 | So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. |