3:1  Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

3:2  He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.

3:3  Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

3:4  For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

3:5  Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future.

3:6  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.

3:7  So, as the Holy Spirit says:
"Today, if you hear his voice,

3:8  do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the desert,

3:9  where your fathers tested and tried me
and for forty years saw what I did.

3:10  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.'

3:11  So I declared on oath in my anger,
'They shall never enter my rest.' "

3:12  See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

3:13  But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.

3:14  We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.

3:15  As has just been said:
"Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion."

3:16  Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

3:17  And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert?

3:18  And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?

3:19  So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.