Hebrews 3

Our Apostle and High Priest

3Therefore, holy brothers and companions in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession; ^r2He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all God’s household. ³For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house. ⁴Now every house is built by someone, but the One who built everything is God. ^s5Moses was faithful as a servant ^tin all God’s household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future. ⁶But Christ was faithful as a Son over His household. And we are that household if we hold on to the courage and the confidence of our hope. ^uv

Warning against Unbelief

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 fathers tested Me, tried Me,

and saw My works ¹⁰for 40 years.

Therefore I was provoked with that generation

and said, “They always go astray in their hearts,

and they have not known My ways.”

¹¹So I swore in My anger,

“They will not enter My rest.” ^wx

¹²Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs ^yfrom the living God. ¹³But encourage each other daily, ^zwhile it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened ^aby sin’s deception. ^b14For we have become companions of the Messiah if we hold firmly until the end the reality ^cthat we had at the start. ^d15As it is said:

Today, if you hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. ^ef

¹⁶For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it really all who came out of Egypt under Moses? ^g17And who was He provoked with for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ^h18And who did He swear to that they would not enter His rest, if not those who disobeyed? ¹⁹So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.