Chapter 3

¹Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

²He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.

³For Jesus has been deemed worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the builder of the house has greater honor than the house itself.

⁴For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

⁵Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,

⁶but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a Son. And we are His house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

⁷Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear His voice,

⁸do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

⁹where your ancestors tested Me by putting Me to the proof, though they had seen My works for forty years.

¹⁰Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known My ways.’

¹¹As I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’”

¹²See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

¹³But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

¹⁴For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

¹⁵As has just been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

¹⁶For who were they who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

¹⁷With whom was He provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

¹⁸And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, if not to those who were disobedient?

¹⁹So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. Chapter 4 The Epistle to the Hebrews, Chapter 4 – VKJV