| 1 | Therefore, brothers and sisters, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, |
| 2 | was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also “was faithful in all God’s house.” |
| 3 | Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. |
| 4 | (For every house is built by someone, 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 would be spoken later. |
| 6 | Christ, however, was faithful over God’s house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope. |
| 7 | Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, |
| 8 | do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, as on the day of testing in the wilderness, |
| 9 | where your ancestors put me to the test, though they had seen my works |
| 10 | for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.’ |
| 11 | As in my anger I swore, ‘They will not enter my rest.’” |
| 12 | Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. |
| 13 | But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. |
| 14 | For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end. |
| 15 | As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” |
| 16 | Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? |
| 17 | But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? |
| 18 | And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient? |
| 19 | So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. |