[1] Therefore, brothers and sisters who are partners in the heavenly calling, think about Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession. [2] Jesus was faithful to the one who appointed him just like Moses was faithful in God’s house. [3] But he deserves greater glory than Moses in the same way that the builder of the house deserves more honor than the house itself. [4] Every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. [5] Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant in order to affirm the things that would be spoken later. [6] But Jesus was faithful over God’s house as a Son. We are his house if we hold on to the confidence and the pride that our hope gives us. [7] So, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, ” [8] “don’t have stubborn hearts ” “as they did in the rebellion, ” “on the day when they tested me in the desert. ” [9] “That is where your ancestors challenged and tested me, ” “though they had seen my work for forty years. ” [10] “So I was angry with them. ” “I said,” “Their hearts always go off course,” “and they don’t know my ways.” [11] “Because of my anger I swore: ” “They will never enter my rest!” [12] Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that none of you have an evil, unfaithful heart that abandons the living God. [13] Instead, encourage each other every day, as long as it’s called “today,” so that none of you become insensitive to God because of sin’s deception. [14] We are partners with Christ, but only if we hold on to the confidence we had in the beginning until the end. [15] When it says, “Today, if you hear his voice, don’t have stubborn hearts ” “as they did in the rebellion.” [16] Who was it who rebelled when they heard his voice? Wasn’t it all of those who were brought out of Egypt by Moses? [17] And with whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with the ones who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? [18] And against whom did he swear that they would never enter his rest, if not against the ones who were disobedient? [19] We see that they couldn’t enter because of their lack of faith.
