Dual PanelJesus, the faithful high priest
1(THEREFORE,) brothers in the family of God, partners in a heavenly calling, think of Jesus, the apostle and high priest of the faith we profess:
2he was faithful to God who appointed him, as Moses also was faithful in God's household;
3but Jesus has been counted worthy of greater honour than Moses, as the founder of a house enjoys more honour than his household.
4Every house has its founder; and the founder of all is God.
5Moses indeed was faithful as a servant in God's whole household; his task was to bear witness to the words that God would speak;
6but Christ is faithful as a son, set over the household. And we are that household, if only we are fearless and keep our hope high.
7“TODAY”, therefore, as the Holy Spirit says -- Today if you hear his voice,
8do not grow stubborn as in the rebellion, at the time of testing in the desert,
9where your forefathers tried me and tested me, though for forty years they saw the things I did.
10Therefore I was incensed with that generation and said, Their hearts are for ever astray; they would not discern my ways;
11so I vowed in my anger, they shall never enter my rest.
12See to it, my friends, that no one among you has the wicked and faithless heart of a deserter from the living God.
13Rather, day by day, as long as that word “today” sounds in your ears, encourage one another, so that no one of you is made stubborn by the wiles of sin.
14For we have become partners with Christ, if only we keep our initial confidence firm to the end.
15When scripture says, “Today if you hear his voice, do not grow stubborn as in the rebellion,”
16who was it that heard and yet rebelled? All those, surely, whom Moses had led out of Egypt.
17And with whom was God indignant for forty years? With those, surely, who had sinned, whose bodies lay where they fell in the desert.
18And to whom did he vow that they should not enter his rest, if not to those who had refused to believe?
19We see, then, it was unbelief that prevented their entering.