1 Therefore, holy brothers, you who share inrEph. 4:1; Phil. 3:14 a heavenly calling, consider Jesus,s[John 20:21; Rom. 15:8] the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him,tver. 5 just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. 3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, butuEph. 2:10; 3:9 the builder of all things is God.) 5 vver. 2; Cited from Num. 12:7 Now Moses was faithful in all God's housewEx. 14:31; Deut. 34:5; Josh. 1:2; 8:31; Ps. 105:26; Rev. 15:3 as a servant,xDeut. 18:15, 18, 19 to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God's house asySee ch. 1:2 a son. Andz1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21; 1 Tim. 3:15; 1 Pet. 2:5 we are his house if indeed weaver. 14; ch. 6:11; Ps. 119:33, 112; Matt. 10:22; Rev. 2:26 hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
bver. 15; ch. 4:7; Cited from Ps. 95:7-11 “Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works
10 forcSee Acts 7:36 forty years.
Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways. ’
11 dch. 4:3, 5 As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest. ’ ”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away fromeSee Matt. 16:16 the living God.
13 Butf[ch. 10:24, 25] exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today, ” that none of you may be hardened byg[Isa. 44:20; Rom. 7:11; Eph. 4:22] the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we share in Christ,hver. 6; ch. 10:23; 1 Cor. 15:2 if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
15 As it is said,
b[See ver. 7 above] “Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. ”
16 ForiNum. 14:2; Deut. 1:34, 35 who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it notj[Num. 14:24, 30; Deut. 1:36, 38] all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned,kNum. 14:29; See Jude 5 whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear thatlDeut. 1:34, 35; [ch. 4:2] they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see thatmch. 4:6; Ps. 78:22; 106:24 they were unable to enter because of unbelief.