Hebrews 3:1-19 VOICE

[1] So all of you who are holy partners in a heavenly calling, let's turn our attention to Jesus, the Emissary of God and High Priest, who brought us the faith we profess; [2] and compare Him to Moses, who also brought words from God. Both of them were faithful to their missions, to the One who called them. [3] But we value Jesus more than Moses, in the same way that we value a builder more than the house he builds. [4] Every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. [5] Moses brought healing and redemption to his people as a faithful servant in God's house, and he was a witness to the things that would be spoken later. [6] But Jesus the Anointed was faithful as a Son of that house. (We become that house, if we're able to hold on to the confident hope we have in God until the end.) [7] Listen now, to the voice of the Holy Spirit through what the psalmist wrote: Today, if you listen to His voice, [8] Don't harden your hearts the way they did in the bitter uprising at Meribah [9] Where your ancestors tested Me though they had seen My marvelous power. [10] For the 40 years they traveled on to the land that I had promised them, That generation broke My heart. Grieving and angry, I said, "Their hearts are unfaithful; they don't know what I want from them." [11] That is why I swore in anger they would never enter salvation's rest. [12] Brothers and sisters, pay close attention so you won't develop an evil and unbelieving heart that causes you to abandon the living God. [13] Encourage each other every day-for as long as we can still say "today"-so none of you let the deceitfulness of sin harden your hearts. [14] For we have become partners with the Anointed One-if we can just hold on to our confidence until the end. [15] Look at the lines from the psalm again: Today, if you listen to His voice, Don't harden your hearts the way they did in the bitter uprising at Meribah. [16] Now who, exactly, was God talking to then? Who heard and rebelled? Wasn't it all of those whom Moses led out of Egypt? [17] And who made God angry for an entire generation? Wasn't it those who sinned against Him, those whose bodies are still buried in the wilderness, the site of that uprising? [18] It was those disobedient ones who God swore would never enter into salvation's rest. [19] And we can see that they couldn't enter because they did not believe.