Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest

¹ Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus, ² who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.

³ For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house. ⁴ For every house is built by someone, but he who built all things is God. ⁵ Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, as a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, ⁶ but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the pride of our hope firm to the end.

Do Not Harden Your Hearts

⁷ Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today if you will hear his voice,
⁸ do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,
as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
⁹ where your fathers tested me and tried me,
and saw my deeds for 40 years.
¹⁰ Therefore I was displeased with that generation,
and said, ‘They always err in their heart,
but they did not know my ways.’
¹¹ As I swore in my wrath,
‘They will not enter into my rest.’ ” ^a

The Dangers of Unbelief

¹² Beware, brothers, lest there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; ¹³ but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴ For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end, ¹⁵ while it is said,

“Today if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts,
as you did in the rebellion.” ^a

¹⁶ For who, when they heard, rebelled? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? ¹⁷ With whom was he displeased for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ To whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient? ¹⁹ We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

^{a Psalm 95:7-11
b Psalm 95:7-8}

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