[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.
