3Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, ²who was faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses also was in his household.^a ³For this one is considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who builds it has greater honor than the house. ⁴For every house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God. ⁵And Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony to the things that would be spoken, ⁶but Christ was faithful^* as a son over his house, whose house we are, if^b we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of.

A Serious Warning Against Unbelief

⁷Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today, if you hear his voice,

⁸do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,

in the day of testing in the wilderness,

⁹where your fathers tested me by trial

and saw my works ¹⁰for forty years.

Therefore I was angry with this generation,

and I said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,

and they do not know my ways.’

¹¹As I swore in my anger,

‘They will never enter^c into my rest.’ ”^d

¹²Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, with the result that you fall away^* from the living God. ¹³But encourage one another day by day^e, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you become hardened^f by the deception of sin. ¹⁴For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our commitment steadfast until the end, ¹⁵while it is said^g,

“Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”^h

¹⁶For who, when they^* heard it, were disobedient? Surely it was not all who went out from Egypt through Moses? ¹⁷And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸And to whom did he swear they would not enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? ¹⁹And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

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Footnotes

aSome manuscripts have “in all his household”
*The words “was faithful” are not in the Greek text, but are an understood repetition from the previous verse and v. 2
bSome manuscripts have “if indeed”
cLiterally “if they will enter”
dA quotation from Ps 95:7b-11
*Here “with the result that” is supplied as a component of the infinitive (“fall away”) which is understood as result
eLiterally “by each day”
fLiterally “not anyone of you be hardened”
gLiterally “in the saying”
hA quotation from Ps 95:7b-8
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal