1 T herefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession;

2 H e was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house.

3 F or He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house.

4 F or every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

5 N ow Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;

6 b ut Christ was faithful as a Son over His house— whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

7 T herefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “ Today if you hear His voice,

8 D o not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness,

9 W here your fathers tried Me by testing Me, And saw My works for forty years.

10 “ Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways ’;

11 A s I swore in My wrath, ‘ They shall not enter My rest.’” The Peril of Unbelief

12 T ake care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

13 B ut encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

14 F or we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,

15 w hile it is said, “ Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”

16 F or who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

17 A nd with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

18 A nd to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?

19 S o we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.