Therefore, aholy brothers and sisters, partakers of a bheavenly calling, consider cthe Apostle and dHigh Priest of our econfession: Jesus;Acts 1:15; Heb 2:11; 3:12; 10:19; 13:22Phil 3:14John 17:3Heb 2:17; 4:14f; 5:5, 10; 6:20; 7:26, 28; 8:1, 3; 9:11; 10:212 Cor 9:13; Heb 4:14; 10:23 2 1He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as aMoses also was in all His house.Lit being faithfulEx 40:16; Num 12:7; Heb 3:5 3 aFor He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house.2 Cor 3:7-11 4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. 5 Now aMoses was faithful in all 1God’s house as ba servant, cfor a testimony of those things dwhich were to be spoken later;Lit HisEx 40:16; Num 12:7; Heb 3:2Ex 14:31; Num 12:7Deut 18:18fHeb 1:1 6 but Christ was faithful as aa Son over His house—bwhose house we are, cif we hold firmly to our dconfidence and the boast of our 1ehope.One early ms adds firm until the endHeb 1:21 Cor 3:16; 1 Tim 3:15Rom 11:22; Heb 3:14; 4:14Eph 3:12; Heb 4:16; 10:19, 35Heb 6:11; 7:19; 10:23; 11:1; 1 Pet 1:3
7 Therefore, just as athe Holy Spirit says,“bTODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,Acts 28:25; Heb 9:8; 10:15Ps 95:7; Heb 3:15; 4:7
12 aTake care, brothers and sisters, that there will not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart 1that falls away from bthe living God.Or that leaves the; lit in falling away fromCol 2:8; Heb 12:25Matt 16:16; Heb 9:14; 10:31; 12:22 13 But aencourage one another every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the bdeceitfulness of sin.Heb 10:24fEph 4:22 14 For we have become partakers of Christ aif we keep the beginning of our 1bcommitment firm until the end,Or assuranceHeb 3:6Heb 11:1 15 while it is said,“aTODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS 1WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME.”Lit in the rebellionPs 95:7f; Heb 3:7; 4:7 16 For who aprovoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, bdid not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?Jer 32:29; 44:3, 8Num 14:2, 11, 30; Deut 1:35, 36, 38 17 And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, awhose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?Num 14:29; 1 Cor 10:5 18 And to whom did He swear athat they would not enter His rest, but to those who were bdisobedient?Num 14:23; Deut 1:34f; Heb 4:2Rom 11:30-32; Heb 4:6, 11 19 And so we see that they were not able to enter because of aunbelief.John 3:18, 36; Rom 11:23; Heb 3:12