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

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

3 F or this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house.

4 F or every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.

5 A nd Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,

6 b ut Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. Be Faithful

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

8 D o not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,

9 W here your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.

10 T herefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’

11 S o I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’”

12 B eware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

13 b ut exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14 F or we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,

15 w hile it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers

16 F or who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?

17 N ow with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

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

19 S o we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.