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.