The Apostle and High Priest of our confession

1So then, holy brothers, you who share in the celestial calling, do contemplate the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, ³⁹Jesus Christ! ⁴⁰

2who was faithful to the One who appointed Him, as also was Moses in all His[F] house.

3For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than was Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself

4—every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God—

5also, Moses was indeed faithful as a servant in all His house, providing evidence of those things that would later be spoken, ⁴¹

6but Christ is faithful as a Son over His house, whose house are we, if, that is, we hold fast the confidence, even the boast, ⁴²of the Hope ⁴³firm to the end. ⁴⁴

The Holy Spirit's warning

7Therefore—just as the Holy Spirit says: ⁴⁵“Today, if you would hear His voice,

8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
during the time of the testing ⁴⁶in the desert,

9where your fathers tested me, proved me and saw my works for forty years.

10In consequence I became very angry with that generation and said, ‘Their heart always leads them astray;
they have not known my ways.’

11So I took an oath in my wrath, ‘As if they will ever enter my rest!’ ” ⁴⁷

12—take care, brothers, that there not be a malignant heart of unbelief in any of you, so as to go away from ⁴⁸the living God;

13rather, exhort yourselves ⁴⁹every day, while it is called ‘today’, so that none of you be hardened through sin's deceitfulness.

14For we have become associates of the Christ, if, that is, we hold fast the beginning of the Endeavor ⁵⁰firm to the end,

15while it is still being said, “Today, ⁵¹if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16So who were they who, upon hearing, rebelled? Really now, was it not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses? ⁵²

17And with whom was He[F] angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

18Or to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, if not to those who disobeyed?

19So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief. ⁵³