Letter to the Hebrews 3

¹ That is why all you who are holy brothers and have had the same heavenly call should turn your minds to Jesus, the apostle and the high priest of our religion.

² He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just like Moses, who stayed faithful in all his house;

³ but he has been found to deserve a greater glory than Moses. It is the difference between the honour given to the man that built the house and to the house itself.

⁴ Every house is built by someone, of course; but God built everything that exists.

⁵ It is true that Moses was faithful in the house of God, as a servant, acting as witness to the things which were to be divulged later;

⁶ but Christ was faithful as a son, and as the master in the house. And we are his house, as long as we cling to our hope with the confidence that we glory in.

⁷ The Holy Spirit says: If only you would listen to him today;

⁸ do not harden your hearts, as happened in the Rebellion, on the Day of Temptation in the wilderness,

⁹ when your ancestors challenged me and tested me, though they had seen what I could do

¹⁰ for forty years. That was why I was angry with that generation and said: How unreliable these people who refuse to grasp my ways!

¹¹ And so, in anger, I swore that not one would reach the place of rest I had for them.[*a]

¹² Take care, brothers, that there is not in any one of your community a wicked mind, so unbelieving as to turn away from the living God.

¹³ Every day, as long as this ‘today’ lasts, keep encouraging one another so that none of you is hardened by the lure of sin,

¹⁴ because we shall remain co-heirs with Christ only if we keep a grasp on our first confidence right to the end.

¹⁵ In this saying: If only you would listen to him today; do not harden your hearts, as happened in the Rebellion,

¹⁶ those who rebelled after they had listened were all the people who were brought out of Egypt by Moses.

¹⁷ And those who made God angry for forty years were the ones who sinned and whose dead bodies were left lying in the wilderness.[*b]

¹⁸ Those that he swore would never reach the place of rest he had for them were those who had been disobedient.

¹⁹ We see, then, that it was because they were unfaithful that they were not able to reach it.