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3:1  Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly calling, concentrate your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and the high priest of our profession of faith.
3:2  He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in God’s household.
3:3  However, he is deserving of a greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house is more honored than the house itself.
3:4  For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all is God.
3:5  Now Moses was faithful as a servant in God’s household, testifying to the things that would later be revealed,
3:6  whereas Christ was faithful as a son watching over his house. And we are that house if we hold firm to our confidence and take pride in our hope.
3:7  Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,
3:8  harden not your hearts as at the rebellion, in the day of testing in the desert,
3:9  where your ancestors tried me and tested me though they had seen what I could do
3:10  for forty years. As a result I became angered with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts have always gone astray, and they do not know my ways.’
3:11  Therefore, I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter into my rest.’ ”
3:12  Take care, brethren, that none of you will ever have an evil and unbelieving heart that will cause you to forsake the living God.
3:13  Rather, encourage each other every day, as long as it is today, so that none of you will become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
3:14  For we will become partners with Christ only if we maintain firmly until the end the confidence we originally had,
3:15  as it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts as at the rebellion.”
3:16  Who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Were they not all those whom Moses had led out of Egypt?
3:17  And with whom was he angered for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned and whose corpses lay in the wilderness?
3:18  And to whom did he swear that they would never enter into his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?
3:19  So we see clearly that they were unable to enter because of their refusal to believe.