The Son Was Faithful
1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,
2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, asMoses alsowasfaithfulin all His house.
3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch asHe who built the house has more honor than the house.
4 For every house is built by someone, butHe who built all thingsisGod.
5 And Moses indeedwasfaithful in all His house asa servant,for a testimony of those things which would be spokenafterward,
6 but Christ asa Son over His own house,whose house we areif we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
Be Faithful
7 Therefore, asthe Holy Spirit says:
# “Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray intheirheart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
15 while it is said:
# “Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers
16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed,wasitnot all who came out of Egypt,ledby Moses?
17 Now with whom was He angry forty years?Wasitnot with those who sinned,whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
18 Andto whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because ofunbelief.