[1] For this reason, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and Chief Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, [2] being faithful to Him who appointed Him, as also Moses [was] in all His house. [3] For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who builds it has more honor than the house. [4] For every house is built by someone, and He who built all things [is] God, [5] and Moses [was] indeed steadfast in all His house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken— [6] but Christ, as a Son over His house, whose house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope to the end. [7] For this reason, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you may hear His voice— [8] you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness, [9] in which your fathers tempted Me; they proved Me, and saw My works [for] forty years; [10] for this reason I was grieved with that generation and said, They always go astray in [their] heart, and these have not known My ways; [11] so I swore in My anger, They will [not] enter into My rest.” [12] Watch out, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God, [13] but exhort one another every day, while [it] is called “Today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, [14] for we have become partakers of the Christ, if we may hold fast the confidence [we had] at the beginning to the end, [15] as it is said, “Today, if you may hear His voice, you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation.” [16] For who [were those], having heard, [that] provoked, but not all those having come out of Egypt through Moses? [17] But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? [18] And to whom did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? [19] And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
