^1. Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

^2. He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.

^3. Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

^4. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

^5. Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future.

^6. But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.

^7. So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,

^8. do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,

^9. where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.

^10. That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, `Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'

^11. So I declared on oath in my anger, `They shall never enter my rest.'" [1]

^12. See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

^13. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.

^14. We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.

^15. As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion." [2]

^16. Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

^17. And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert?

^18. And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed [3] ?

^19. So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.