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3:1  Well then, my brothers and sisters: you are God’s holy ones, and you share the call from heaven. So think carefully about Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession of faith.
3:2  He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
3:3  He deserves much more glory than Moses, you see, just as the one who builds a house deserves more glory than the house.
3:4  For every house is built by someone, but the one who builds all things is God.
3:5  And “Moses was faithful, as a servant, in all his house,” thereby bearing witness to the things that were yet to be spoken of;
3:6  but the Messiah is over God’s house as a son. What is that house? It is us—those of us who hold on tightly to the boldness and confidence of our hope.
3:7  So listen to what the holy spirit says: Today, if you hear his voice,
3:8  don’t harden hearts, as in the great bitterness, like the day in the desert when they faced the test,
3:9  when your fathers put me to the test, and challenged me, and saw my works
3:10  for forty years. And so I was angry with that generation, and said, “They are always straying in their hearts, they do not know my ways.”
3:11  As I swore in my anger, “They’ll never enter my rest.”
3:12  Take care, my dear family, that none of you should possess an evil and unbelieving heart, leading you to withdraw from the living God.
3:13  But encourage one another every day, as long as it’s called “Today,” so that none of you may become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
3:14  We share the life of the Messiah, you see, only if we keep a firm, tight grip on our original confidence, right through to the end.
3:15  That’s what it means when it says, “Today, if you hear his voice, don’t make your hearts hard, as in the great bitterness.”
3:16  Who was it, after all, who heard and then became bitter? It was all those who went out of Egypt under Moses, wasn’t it?
3:17  And who was it that God was angry with for forty years? It was those who sinned, wasn’t it—those whose bodies fell in the desert?
3:18  And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest? Wasn’t it the people who didn’t believe?
3:19  So we can see that it was their unbelief that prevented them from entering.