1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, |
2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. |
3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. |
4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. |
5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, |
6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. |
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice, |
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, |
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. |
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, 'They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.' |
11 So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'" |
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; |
13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. |
14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, |
15 while it is said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." |
16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? |
17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? |
18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? |
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. |