Hebrews 3
Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest
¹ Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
² He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.1
³ For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
⁴ And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
⁵ Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,2 testifying to what would be spoken later.
⁶ But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly 3 to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
Do Not Harden Your Hearts
(Psalms 95:1–11)
⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
⁸ do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
⁹ where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
¹⁰ Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
¹¹ So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”4
The Peril of Unbelief
¹² See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
¹³ But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
¹⁴ We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
¹⁵ As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”5
¹⁶ For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
¹⁷ And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
¹⁸ And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
¹⁹ So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.