Hebrews 3–4

Chapter 3

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus:

²Who is faithful to him that made him, as was also Moses in all his house.

³For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the house.

⁴For every house is built by some man: but he that created all things is God.

⁵And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be said:

⁶But Christ, as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end.

⁷Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his voice,

⁸Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert,

⁹Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,

¹⁰Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways.

¹¹As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest.

¹²Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.

¹³But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

¹⁴For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

¹⁵While it is said: To day, if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation.

¹⁶For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

¹⁷And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

¹⁸And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?

¹⁹And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.

Chapter 4

Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting.

²For unto us also it hath been declared in like manner as unto them. But the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with faith of those things they heard.

³For we, who have believed, shall enter into rest; as he said: As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest; and this indeed when the works from the foundation of the world were finished.

⁴For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

⁵And in this place again: If they shall enter into my rest.

⁶Seeing then it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief:

⁷Again he limiteth a certain day, saying in David; To day, after so long a time as it is above said: To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

⁸For if Jesus had given them rest he would never have afterwards spoken of another day.

⁹There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God.

¹⁰For he that is entered into his rest, the same also hath rested from his works, as God did from his.

¹¹Let us hasten therefore to enter into that rest: lest any man fall into the same example of unbelief.

¹²For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

¹³Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

¹⁴Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession.

¹⁵For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

¹⁶Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that we may obtain mercy and find grace in seasonable aid.