Chapter 3

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus,

who is faithful to him who made him, as was Moses also "in all his house."

For he was deemed worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house that he has built.

For every house is built by someone; but he who created all things is God.

And Moses indeed was faithful "in all his house" as a servant, to testify concerning those things that were to be spoken;

but Christ is faithful as the Son over his own house. We are that house, if we hold fast our confession and the hope in which we glory unto the end. Exhortation

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you shall hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the provocation, during the day of temptation in the desert,

where your fathers tried me, proved and saw my works

forty years. Wherefore I was offended with this generation, and said, 'They always err in heart, and they have not known my ways. '

As I have sworn in my wrath, They shall not enter into my Rest."

Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that would turn away from the living God.

But exhort one another every day, while it is still Today, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For we have been made partakers of Christ, provided only that we hold fast our first confidence in him unto the end.

While it is said, "Today, if you shall hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in that provocation"---

for some who heard gave provocation, but not all those who came out of Egypt under Moses---

with whom then was he offended forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his Rest, but to those who were unbelieving? 19 And we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.