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,
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8 do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the desert,
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9 where your fathers tested and tried me
and for forty years saw what I did.
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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.'
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11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
'They shall never enter my rest.' "1 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11 |
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."2 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8 |
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 disobeyed3 3:18 Or disbelieved ? |
19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. |
