Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest

1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a Heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus, 2Who was faithful to Him Who appointed Him, as also was Moses in all His house. 3For This One has been accounted worthy of more glory than Moses, by as much as He Who built the house hath more honor than the house; 4for every house is built by some one, but He Who built all things is God. 5And Moses, indeed, was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of the things to be afterward spoken; 6but Christ as a Son over His own house; Whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Do Not Harden Your Hearts

7Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, "To-day, if ye hear His voice,

8harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

9where your fathers tempted Me by proving Me, and saw My works, forty years.

10Wherefore, I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They do always err in their heart, and they did not know My ways;

11as I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest.'"

The Peril of Unbelief

12Take heed, brethren, lest at any time there shall be in anyone of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; 13but exhort one another daily, so long as it is called "To-day," lest anyone of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin; 14for we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

15while it is said, "To-day, if ye hear His voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation."

16For who, after having heard, did provoke? nay, did not all who came out of Egypt through Moses? 17And with whom was He displeased forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did He swear, that they should not enter into His rest, but to those who were disbelieving? 19And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.