Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest

¹ Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle^* and high priest whom we confess. ² He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.

³ For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. ⁴ And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

⁵ Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later. ⁶ But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence^* and the hope of which we boast.

Do Not Harden Your Hearts

⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you hear His voice,

⁸ do not harden your hearts,

as you did in the rebellion,

in the day of testing in the wilderness,

⁹ where^* your fathers tested and tried Me,

and for forty years saw My works.

¹⁰ Therefore I was angry with that generation,

and I said,

‘Their hearts are always going astray,

and they have not known My ways.’

¹¹ So I swore on oath in My anger,

‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

The Peril of Unbelief

¹² See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. ¹³ But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

¹⁴ We have come to share in Christ^* if we hold firmly to the end the assurance^* we had at first. ¹⁵ As it has been said:

“Today, if you hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts,

as you did in the rebellion.”

¹⁶ For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? ¹⁷ And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? ¹⁹ So we see that it was because of their unbelief^* that they were unable to enter.