3:1 | Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,* partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess,* |
3:2 | who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s* house.* |
3:3 | For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself! |
3:4 | For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. |
3:5 | Now Moses was faithful in all God’s* house* as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken. |
3:6 | But Christ* is faithful as a son over God’s* house. We are of his house,* if in fact we hold firmly* to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.* |
3:7 | Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,* “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!* |
3:8 | “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness. |
3:9 | “There your fathers tested me and tried me,* and they saw my works for forty years. |
3:10 | “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering* and they have not known my ways.’ |
3:11 | “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”* |
3:12 | See to it,* brothers and sisters,* that none of you has* an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes* the living God.* |
3:13 | But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception. |
3:14 | For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence* firm until the end. |
3:15 | As it says,* “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!* Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”* |
3:16 | For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?* |
3:17 | And against whom was God* provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?* |
3:18 | And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? |
3:19 | So* we see that they could not enter because of unbelief. |