Dual Panel1So then, my brothers in holiness who share a heavenly calling, I want you to think of Christ Jesus the Apostle and High Priest of the faith we hold.
2See him as faithful to the charge God gave him, and compare him with Moses who also faithfully discharged his duty in the household of God.
3For this man Jesus has been considered worthy of greater honour than Moses, just as the founder of a house may be truly said to have more honour than the house itself.
4Every house is founded by someone, but the founder of everything is God himself.
5Moses was certainly faithful in all his duties in God's household, but he was faithful as a servant and his work was only a foreshadowing of the truth that would be known later.
6But Christ was faithful as a son in the household of his own Father. And we are members of this household if we hold on to the end, with confidence and pride in our hope.
7We ought to take note of these words in which the Holy Spirit says: Today if ye shall hear his voice,
8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
9Wherewith your fathers tempted me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.
10Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, they do alway err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;
11As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
12You should therefore be most careful, my brothers, that there should not be in any of you that wickedness of heart which refuses to trust, and deserts the cause of the living God.
13Encourage each other every day, while it is still called "today", and beware that none of you becomes deaf and blind to God through the delusive glamour of sin.
14For we continue to share in all that Christ has for us so long as we steadily maintain until the end the trust with which we began.
15These words are still being said for our ears to hear: Today if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16For who was it who heard the Word of God and yet provoked his indignation? Was it not all who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
17And who was it with whom God was displeased for forty long years? Was it not those who, after all their hearing of God's Word, fell into sin, and left their bones in the desert?
18And to whom did God swear that they should never enter into his rest. Was it not these very men who refused to trust him?
19Yes, it is all too plain that it was refusal to trust God that prevented these men from entering his rest.