Hebrews
Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle and High Priest
of our confession: Jesus,
who was
faithful to the One who appointed him, as Moses was in all God’s house.
For he has
been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a
house has more honor than the house.
For every house is built by someone,
but the builder of all things is God.
Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a
servant, as a testimony to those things which were to be spoken afterwards.
However, the Messiah is faithful as a son over God’s house. And we are His house — if we hold fast our confidence and the hope in which we glory firm to the end.
Therefore, as the holy spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice,
do not
harden your hearts, as when they rebelled in the day of testing in the
wilderness,
where your ancestors tested Me and tried Me, and saw My actions
for forty years.
Therefore I was angry with that generation and said, ‘Their
hearts are always going astray, and they did not know My ways.’
As I swore in My anger, ‘They will not enter My rest.’”
Take care, brothers and sisters, that there is not in any of you an evil heart of unbelief that rebels against the living God.
But encourage one
another day by day, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you will
be hardened by the deceptiveness of sin.
For we have become partners with the
Messiah — if we hold our initial assurance firm to the end.
As it says,
“Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as when they rebelled against Me.”
For who was it who, when they heard, rebelled? Was
it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
And with whom was
God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell
in the wilderness?
And to whom did He swear that they would not enter
His rest, except to those who disobeyed?
We see then that they could
not enter because of unbelief.
Hebrews