HEBREWS 3 (NIV)
- Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the spostle an dhigh priest whom we confess.
- He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.
- Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
- For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
- Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future.
- But Christ is faithful s a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.
- So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,
- do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,
- where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
- That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'
- So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'"
- See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
- But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
- We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.
- As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.'
- Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
- And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert?
- And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
- So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
