Chapter 3

  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;  

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

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  For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath built the house, hath more honor than the house.  

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  For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.  

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  And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterwards to be spoken.  

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  But Christ as a son over his own house: whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence, and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.  

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  Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit saith, 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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  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.  

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  Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.  

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  So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)  

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  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.  

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  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  

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  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end;  

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

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  For some, when they had heard, did provoke: yet, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.  

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  But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?  

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  And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?  

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  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.  

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