3:1 Because of this, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of the faith we profess—Jesus Christ, |
3:2 Who was faithful to Him Who appointed Him, even as Moses was in all His house. |
3:3 For He has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, even as He Who built the house has so much more honor than the house itself. |
3:4 For every house is built by someone, but He Who built all things is God. |
3:5 Now on the one hand, Moses was faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of those things which were going to be spoken afterwards. |
3:6 But on the other hand, Christ was faithful as the Son over His own house; Whose house we are, if we are truly holding fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. |
3:7 For this reason, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you will hear His voice, |
3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, |
3:9 Where your fathers tempted Me and tried Me, and saw My works forty years. |
3:10 Because of this, I was indignant with that generation, and said, 'They are always going astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways.' |
3:11 So I swore in My wrath, 'If they shall enter into My rest—' " |
3:12 Beware, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in apostatizing from the living God. |
3:13 Rather, be encouraging one another each day, while it is called "today," so that none of you become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. |
3:14 For we are companions of Christ, if we truly hold the confidence that we had at the beginning steadfast until the end. |
3:15 As it is being said, "Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion." |
3:16 For some, after hearing, did rebel, but not all who came out of Egypt by Moses. |
3:17 But with whom was He indignant for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose dead bodies were strewn in the wilderness? |
3:18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, except to those who had disobeyed? |
3:19 So we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief. |