Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, ‘Isa; 2who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Musa in all his house. 3For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Musa, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honour than the house. 4For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is Allah. 5Musa indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, 6but al-Masih is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. 7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today if you will hear his voice,
8Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,
As in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
9Where your fathers tested me by proving me,
And saw my works for forty years.
10I was grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘They always err in their hearts,
And they have not known my ways;’
11Therefore I swore in my wrath,
‘They will not enter into my rest.‘”[1]
12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; 13but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today;“lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have become partakers of al-Masih, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end: 15while it is said,
“Today if you will hear his voice,
Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.“[2]
16For who, when they heard, rebelled? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt by Musa? 17With whom was he displeased forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18To whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
[1] 3:7-11 Quoting the Zabur 95:7-11.
[2] 3:15 Quoting the Zabur 95:7-8.