The Superiority of Jesus to Moses

¹ Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

² who was faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses also was in his household.¹

1. Some manuscripts have “in all his household”

³ For this one is considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who builds it has greater honor than the house.

⁴ For every house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God.

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

⁶ but Christ was faithful¹ as a son over his house, whose house we are, if² we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of.

1. *The words “was faithful” are not in the Greek text, but are an understood repetition from the previous verse and v. 2
2. Some manuscripts have “if indeed”

A Serious Warning Against Unbelief

⁷ Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,

⁸ do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

⁹ where your fathers tested me by trial and saw my works

¹⁰ for forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they do not know my ways.’

¹¹ As I swore in my anger, ‘⌞They will never enter⌟¹ into my rest.’ ”²

1. Literally “if they will enter”
2. A quotation from Ps 95:7b-11

¹² Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, with the result that you fall away¹ from the living God.

1. *Here “with the result that” is supplied as a component of the infinitive (“fall away”) which is understood as result

¹³ But encourage one another ⌞day by day⌟¹, as long as it is called “today,” so that ⌞none of you become hardened⌟² by the deception of sin.

1. Literally “by each day”
2. Literally “not anyone of you be hardened”

¹⁴ For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our commitment steadfast until the end,

¹⁵ ⌞while it is said⌟¹, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”²

1. Literally “in the saying”
2. A quotation from Ps 95:7b-8

¹⁶ For who, when they¹ heard it, were disobedient? Surely it was not all who went out from Egypt through Moses?

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal

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

¹⁸ And to whom did he swear they would not enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

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