Moses a Servant, Christ a Son

1Therefore, brothers and sisters,3.1 Gk brothers holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also ‘was faithful in all3.2 Other ancient authorities lack all God's3.2 Gk his house.’ 3Yet Jesus3.3 Gk this one is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honour than the house itself. 4(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5Now Moses was faithful in all God's3.5 Gk his house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later. 6Christ, however, was faithful over God's3.6 Gk his house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm3.6 Other ancient authorities add to the end the confidence and the pride that belong to hope.

Warning against Unbelief

7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

‘Today, if you hear his voice,

8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,

as on the day of testing in the wilderness,

9where your ancestors put me to the test,

though they had seen my works 10for forty years.

Therefore I was angry with that generation,

and I said, “They always go astray in their hearts,

and they have not known my ways.”

11As in my anger I swore,

“They will not enter my rest.” ’

12Take care, brothers and sisters,3.12 Gk brothers that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called ‘today’, so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end. 15As it is said,

‘Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.’

16Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? 17But with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient? 19So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.