Hebrews 3

Our Apostle and High Priest

¹Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.²³He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God’s household.⁴⁵For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house.⁶⁷Now every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God.⁸⁹Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future.¹⁰¹¹But Christ was faithful as a Son over his household. And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.¹²

Warning against Unbelief

¹³Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear his voice,¹⁴

¹⁵do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,¹⁶

¹⁷where your ancestors tested me, tried me, and saw my works¹⁸¹⁹for forty years. Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation and said, “They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.”²⁰

²¹So I swore in my anger, “They will not enter my rest.”²²

²³Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.²⁴²⁵But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.²⁶²⁷For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.²⁸²⁹As it is said: Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.³⁰

³¹For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses?³²³³With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?³⁴³⁵And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?³⁶³⁷So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.³⁸