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3:1  Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, [thoughtfully and attentively] consider the Apostle and High Priest whom we confessed [as ours when we accepted Him as Savior], namely, Jesus;
3:2  He was faithful to Him who appointed Him [Apostle and High Priest], as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house.
3:3  Yet Jesus has been considered worthy of much greater glory and honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house.
3:4  For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
3:5  Now Moses was faithful in [the administration of] all God’s house, [but only] as a ministering servant, [his ministry serving] as a testimony of the things which were to be spoken afterward [the revelation to come in Christ];
3:6  but Christ is faithful as a Son over His [Father’s] house. And we are His house if we hold fast our confidence and sense of triumph in our hope [in Christ].
3:7  Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice,
3:8  Do not harden your hearts as [your fathers did] in the rebellion [of Israel at Meribah], On the day of testing in the wilderness,
3:9  Where your fathers tried Me by testing [My forbearance and tolerance], And saw My works for forty years [And found I stood their test].
3:10  “Therefore I was angered with this generation, And I said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways [nor become progressively better and more intimately acquainted with them]’;
3:11  So I swore [an oath] in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest [the promised land].’”
3:12  Take care, brothers and sisters, that there not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to trust and rely on the Lord, a heart] that turns away from the living God.
3:13  But continually encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “Today” [and there is an opportunity], so that none of you will be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [its cleverness, delusive glamour, and sophistication].
3:14  For we [believers] have become partakers of Christ [sharing in all that the Messiah has for us], if only we hold firm our newborn confidence [which originally led us to Him] until the end,
3:15  while it is said, “Today [while there is still opportunity] if you hear His voice, Do not harden your heart, as when they provoked Me [in the rebellion in the desert at Meribah].”
3:16  For who were they who heard and yet provoked Him [with rebellious acts]? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
3:17  And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies were scattered in the desert?
3:18  And to whom did He swear [an oath] that they would not enter His rest, but to those who disobeyed [those who would not listen to His word]?
3:19  So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest—the promised land] because of unbelief and an unwillingness to trust in God.