¹ Because of which, holy brothers, companions of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our affirmation, Jesus Christ,

² who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

³ For this man was considered worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he who built it has more esteem than the house.

⁴ For every house is built by some man, but he who built all things is God.

⁵ And Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of the things that were going to be spoken,

⁶ but Christ as a Son over his house, whose house we are, if only we keep in possession our confidence and pride of hope, firm until the end.

⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if ye hear his voice,

⁸ do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, according to the day of the trial in the wilderness,

⁹ where your fathers challenged me, tested me, and saw my works forty years.

¹⁰ Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways.

¹¹ So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest.

¹² Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.

¹³ But exhort each other during each day, while it is called Today, lest any of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

¹⁴ For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,

¹⁵ while it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

¹⁶ For some who heard rebelled, but not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses.

¹⁷ But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

¹⁸ And to whom did he swear were not going to enter into his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?

¹⁹ And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.