3:1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the celestial calling, consider the ambassador and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,
3:2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, even as Moses was in all his house.
3:3 And yet this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has prepared the house has more honour in the house.
3:4 Every house is built by some man. But he who ordained all things is God.
3:5 And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, to bear witness of those things that were to be spoken afterward.
3:6 But Christ as a son has rule over the house – whose house we are, if so be that we hold fast the confidence and the assurance of that hope to the end.
3:7 Therefore as the Holy Spirit says: Today if you hear his voice,
3:8 harden not your hearts, as in the rebellion in the day of trial in the wilderness,
3:9 where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years long.
3:10 Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do ever err in their hearts; they have not acknowledged my ways.
3:11 So I swore in my wrath that they would not enter into my rest.
3:12 Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God;
3:13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you grow hard-hearted through the deceitfulness of sin.
3:14 We are partakers of Christ if we keep sure until the end the first confidence,
3:15 as long as it is said: Today, if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as when you rebelled.
3:16 For some, when they heard, rebelled – though not everyone who came out of Egypt under Moses.
3:17 But with whom was he displeased for forty years? Was he not displeased with those who sinned, whose bodies were overthrown in the desert?
3:18 To whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to those who did not believe?
3:19 And we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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