3:1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession; |
3:2 He remained faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also remained faithful in all His house. |
3:3 For we count Him worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. |
3:4 For someone builds every house, but God builds all things. |
3:5 Now Moses remained faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which became spoken later; |
3:6 but Christ remained faithful as a Son over His house-- whose house we have become, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. |
3:7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, "TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, |
3:8 DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS, |
3:9 WHERE YOUR FATHERS TRIED Me BY TESTING Me, AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS. |
3:10 "THEREFORE I BECAME ANGRY WITH THIS GENERATION, AND SAID, 'THEY ALWAYS GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART, AND THEY DID NOT KNOW MY WAYS'; |
3:11 AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, 'THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.'" |
3:12 Take care, brethren, that there not exist in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. |
3:13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as still acknowledge "Today," so that none of you will become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. |
3:14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end, |
3:15 while the scripture says, "TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME." |
3:16 For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? |
3:17 And with whom did He become angry for forty years? Did it not occur with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? |
3:18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who disobeyed? |
3:19 So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief. |