| | 1 | Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. | |
| | 2 | He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house. | |
| | 3 | Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. | |
| | 4 | For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. | |
| | 5 | Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future. | |
| | 6 | But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast. | |
| | 7 | So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, | |
| | 8 | do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, | |
| | 9 | where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. | |
| | 10 | That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.' | |
| | 11 | So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" | |
| | 12 | See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. | |
| | 13 | But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. | |
| | 14 | We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. | |
| | 15 | As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion." | |
| | 16 | Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? | |
| | 17 | And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? | |
| | 18 | And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? | |
| | 19 | So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. | |
