1 Wherefore, 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 counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
4 For every house is builded by some
man; but he that built all things
is God.
5 And Moses verily
was faithful in all his house, as aservant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 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 unto the end.
7 Wherefore (as the
Holy Ghost
saith,
To day
if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden
not 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 Wherefore I was grieved with that
generation, and said, They do alway err in
their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not
enter
into myrest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evilheart
of
unbelief, in
departing from
the living God.
13 But
exhort
one another daily, while it is called
To day; 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
unto the end;
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice,
harden not your hearts, as in the
provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years?
was it not with them that had sinned, whose
carcases
fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because ofunbelief.