[1] Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the
Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus; [2] who was faithful to
him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house. [3] For he has
been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much 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] Moses indeed was faithful
in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were
afterward to be spoken, [6] but Christ as a Son, over his house; whose
house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope
firm to the end. [7] Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if
you will hear his voice, [8] Don`t harden your hearts, as in the
provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, [9] Where
your fathers tested me by proving me, And saw my works for forty years.
[10] Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, `They
always err in their heart, But they didn`t know my ways;` [11] As I swore
in my wrath, `They will not enter into my rest.`" [12] Beware, brothers,
lest perhaps there will be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in
falling away from the living God; [13] but exhort one another day by day,
so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the
deceitfulness of sin. [14] For we have become partakers of Christ, if we
hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end: [15] while it is
said, "Today if you will hear his voice, Don`t harden your hearts, as in
the provocation." [16] For who, when they heard, did provoke? No, didn`t
all those who came out of Egypt by Moses? [17] With whom was he displeased
forty years? was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the
wilderness? [18] To whom did he swear that they should not enter into his
rest, but to those who were disobedient? [19] We see that they were not
able to enter in because of unbelief.
