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[1]Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation, consider the Apostle and high Priest of our profession Christ Jesus:
[2]Who was faithful to him that hath appointed him, even as Moses was in all his house.
[3]For this man is counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he which hath builded the house, hath more honor than the house.
[4]For every house is builded of some man, and he that hath built all things, is God.
[5]Now Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a witness of the things which should be spoken after.
[6]But Christ is as the Son, over his own house, whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end.
[7]Wherefore, as the holy Ghost saith, Today if ye shall hear his voice,
[8]Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
[9]Where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years long.
[10]Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They err ever in their heart, neither have they known my ways.
[11]Therefore I swear in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.
[12]Take heed, brethren, lest at any time there be in any of you an evil heart, and unfaithful, to depart away from the living God.
[13]But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
[14]For we are made partakers of Christ, if we keep sure unto the end the beginning, wherewith we are upholden,
[15]So long as it is said, Today if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
[16]For some when they heard, provoked him to anger: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
[17]But with whom was he displeased forty years? Was he not displeased with them that sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
[18]And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them, that obeyed not?
[19]So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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