3:1 Therefore, holy "brothers," sharing in a heavenly calling, reflect on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
3:2 who was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was "faithful in
3:3 But he is worthy of more "glory" than Moses, as the founder of a house has more "honor" than the house itself.
3:4 Every house is founded by someone, but the founder of all is God.
3:5 Moses was "faithful in all his house" as a "servant" to testify to what would be spoken,
3:6 but Christ was faithful as a son placed over his house. We are his house, if
3:7 Therefore, as the holy Spirit says: "Oh, that today you would hear his voice,
3:8 'Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion in the day of testing in the desert,
3:9 where your ancestors tested and tried me and saw my works
3:10 for forty years. Because of this I was provoked with that generation and I said, "They have always been of erring heart, and they do not know my ways."
3:11 As I swore in my wrath, "They shall not enter into my rest."'"
3:12 Take care, brothers, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God.
3:13 Encourage yourselves daily while it is still "today," so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin.
3:14 We have become partners of Christ if only we hold the beginning of the reality firm until the end,
3:15 for it is said: "Oh, that today you would hear his voice: 'Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion.'"
3:16 Who were those who rebelled when they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt under Moses?
3:17 With whom was he "provoked for forty years"? Was it not those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?
3:18 And to whom did he "swear that they should not enter into his rest," if not to those who were disobedient?
3:19 And we see that they could not enter for lack of faith.