1So, holy brothers and sisters, you who share in a heavenly calling, think about Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our faith.
2He was faithful to God who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all of God's household.
3For Jesus has been considered worthy of more glory than Moses, because the one who builds a house has more honor than the house itself.
4Every house is built by someone, but God built everything.
5Moses was indeed faithful in all of God's house as a servant, to announce what would be said later.
6But Christ is faithful as a Son presiding over his own house. We are his house, if we continue to hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we boast about until the end.
7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice,
8Don’t be stubborn, like those who rebelled, as they were tested in the wilderness.
9That’s where your ancestors tested me and tried me, even though they saw what I did for forty years.
10So I was angry with that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they haven't learned my ways.’
11As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest.’
12Brothers and sisters, be careful that none of you develop an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
13Instead, encourage each other every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be fooled by sin and become stubborn.
14We will share in Christ if we hold firmly to our original confidence until the end.
15The Scripture says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did during the rebellion.”
16Who rebelled when they heard God’s voice? Wasn’t it all the people Moses led out of Egypt?
17With whom was God displeased for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
18To whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest? It was to those who would not obey him.
19So we see that they could not enter God’s rest because they did not believe.