Chapter 3

  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of [the] heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,  

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  who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses also in all his house.  

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  For he has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house.  

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  For every house is built by some one; but he who has built all things [is] God.  

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  And Moses indeed [was] faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after;  

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  but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are we, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.  

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  Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice,  

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  harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;  

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  where your fathers tempted [me], by proving [me], and saw my works forty years.  

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  Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways;  

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  so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.  

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  See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from [the] living God.  

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  But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.  

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  For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end;  

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  in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;  

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  (for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but [was it] not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?  

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  And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?  

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  And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?  

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  And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;)  

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