Chapter 3

  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, [even] Jesus;  

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

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  For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the house.  

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  For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.  

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  And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken;  

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  but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.  

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  Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,  

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  Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,  

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  Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me,] And saw my works forty years.  

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  Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;  

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  As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.  

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  Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:  

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  but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:  

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  for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:  

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  while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.  

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  For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?  

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  And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?  

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  And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient?  

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

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