To the Hebrews, 3

¹ Consequently, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling,^*1 consider the apostle and high priest whom we acknowledge^*2—Jesus.

² He was faithful to the One who appointed him, just as Moses also was in all the house of that One.

³ For he^*1 is counted worthy of more glory than Moses, since the one who constructs a house has more honor than the house itself.

⁴ Of course, every house is constructed by someone, but the one who constructed all things is God.

⁵ Now Moses was faithful as an attendant in all the house of that One as a testimony^*1 of the things that were to be spoken afterward,

⁶ but Christ was faithful as a son over God’s house. We are His house if, indeed, we hold on firmly to our freeness of speech and the hope of which we boast down to the end.

⁷ Therefore, just as the holy spirit says, “Today if you listen to his voice,

⁸ do not harden your hearts as on the occasion of provoking to bitter anger, as in the day of testing in the wilderness,

⁹ where your forefathers put me to the test and tried me, despite seeing my works for 40 years.

¹⁰ This is why I became disgusted with this generation and said: ‘They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not come to know my ways.’

¹¹ So I swore in my anger: ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

¹² Beware, brothers, for fear there should ever develop in any one of you a wicked heart lacking faith by drawing away from the living God;

¹³ but keep on encouraging one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you should become hardened by the deceptive power of sin.

¹⁴ For we actually become partakers of^*1 the Christ only if we hold firmly down to the end the confidence we had at the beginning.

¹⁵ As it is said, “Today if you listen to his voice, do not harden your hearts as on the occasion of provoking to bitter anger.”

¹⁶ For who heard and yet provoked him to bitter anger? Was it not, in fact, all those who went out of Egypt under Moses?

¹⁷ Moreover, with whom did God become disgusted for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

¹⁸ And to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest? Was it not to those who acted disobediently?

¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter in because of lack of faith.