Jesus, the Faithful Apostle and High Priest

1 Therefore, holy brethren, sharers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession,
2 who is faithful to the One who made him, just as Moses also was faithful in all His house.
3 For this one has been considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.
4 For every house is built by someone, but the One who built all things is God.
5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of the things that would be spoken later,
6 but Christ as a Son over His house, whose house we are, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

A Call Not to Harden the Heart

7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear His voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
in the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers tested Me by trial
and saw My works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
and I said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
and they did not know My ways.’
11 As I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall certainly not enter My rest.’”

12 Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.
13 But encourage one another each day, while it is called “Today”, so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,
15 while it is said:
“Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

The Warning from Israel’s Example

16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
17 And with whom was He 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 not enter His rest, except to those who were disobedient?
19 And we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.