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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
Moses was in
all his house.
3 For
he has been
counted worthy of
more glory than
Moses, because 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
is faithful as a
Son over his
house. We are
his house, if
we hold fast
our confidence 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 rebellion,
in the day
of the trial
in the wilderness,
9 where
your fathers
tested me and
tried me,
and saw my
deeds 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
might 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 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 rebellion.”
16 For
who, when
they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t
it all those
who came out
of Egypt led by
Moses?
17 With
whom was
he displeased forty
years? Wasn’t it
with those
who sinned, whose
bodies fell in
the wilderness?
18 To
whom did he
swear that
they wouldn’t
enter into his
rest, but to
those who
were disobedient?
19 We see
that they weren’t
able to enter
in because
of unbelief.