Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest

1Hence, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, carefully consider Jesus,† the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, 2being faithful to the One having appointed Him, as Moses also in all His house.†

3For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by as much as the one having built it has more honor than the house itself. 4For every house is built by someone, but the One having built everything is God.

5And indeed Moses was faithful as an attendant in all His house,† for a testimony of the things going to be spoken, 6but Christ as the Son over His house, whose house we are, if we should hold† our confidence and the boast of our hope.

Do Not Harden Your Hearts
(Psalm 95:1–11)

7Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you⁺ should hear His voice,

8do not harden your⁺ hearts,

as in the rebellion,

in the day of testing in the wilderness,†

9where forty years your⁺ fathers tested Me by trial

and saw My works.

10Therefore I was angry with this generation,

and I said,

‘Always they go astray in their they heart;

and did not know My ways;’

11as I swore in My wrath,

‘They shall not enter into My rest.’”†

The Peril of Unbelief

12See to it, brothers, lest ever there will be in any of you⁺ an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God. 13But encourage one another each day, as long as it is called today, so that not any of you⁺ may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

14For we have become partakers of Christ, if indeed we should hold firm until the end the assurance from the beginning. 15As it is said:

“Today if you⁺ should hear His voice,

do not harden your⁺ hearts,

as in the rebellion.Ӡ

16For who, having heard, rebelled? But was it not all those having come forth out of Egypt through Moses?† 17And with whom was He angry forty years, if not with those having sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, if not to those having disobeyed? 19And we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

Footnotes:

1 BYZ Jesus Christ; TR Christ Jesus
2 Or just as Moses was faithful in all God's house; SBL just as Moses was faithful in His house
5 Numbers 12:7
6 NE, WH, BYZ, and TR include to the end.
8 Or desert; also in verse 17
11 Psalm 95:7–11 (see also LXX)
15 Psalm 95:7–8
16 RP and TR For some did rebel when they heard God's voice, but not all whom Moses led out of Egypt.