3:1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest.
3:2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
3:3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honour than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honour than the house itself.
3:4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
3:5 ‘Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,’ bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.
3:6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
3:7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: ‘Today, if you hear his voice,
3:8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,
3:9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did.
3:10 That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, “Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.”
3:11 So I declared on oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.”’
3:12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
3:13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called ‘Today’, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
3:14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
3:15 As has just been said: ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.’
3:16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
3:17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?
3:18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
3:19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
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