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[1] Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
[2] Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
[3] For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath built the house, hath more honor than the house.
[4] For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.
[5] And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterwards to be spoken.
[6] But Christ as a son over his own house: whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence, and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
[7] Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye will hear his voice,
[8] Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
[9] When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
[10] Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
[11] So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
[12] Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
[13] But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
[14] For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end;
[15] While it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
[16] For some, when they had heard, did provoke: yet, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
[17] But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
[18] And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
[19] So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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