Chapter 3

  Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;  

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  who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.  

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  For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he who built the house has more honor than the house.  

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  For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.  

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  Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,  

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  but Christ as a Son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.  

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  Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, 'Today if you will hear his voice,  

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  Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,  

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  Where your fathers tested me by proving me, And saw my works for forty years.  

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  Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, 'They always err in their heart, But they didn't know my ways;'  

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  As I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.''  

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  Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there will be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;  

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  but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called 'today;' lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.  

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  For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:  

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  while it is said, 'Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation.'  

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  For who, when they heard, did provoke? No, didn't all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?  

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  With whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?  

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  To whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?  

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  We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.  

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