1. Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
2. Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
3. For this man was esteemed worthy of more glory than Moses, just as he who has built the house has more honor than the house.
4. For every house is built by someone; but he that built all things is God.
5. And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, as a testimony of those things which were to be spoken afterwards;
6. But Christ was faithful 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.
7. Therefore (as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear his voice,
8. Do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10. Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11. So I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12. Be careful, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13. But encourage one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast until the end;
15. While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: however not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17. But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18. And to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not?
19. So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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