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[1]Wherefore, my holy brethren, who are called with a calling that is from heaven, consider this Legate and High Priest of our profession, Jesus the Messiah:
[2]who was faithful to him that made him, as was Moses in all his house.
[3]For much greater is the glory of this man, than that of Moses; just as the glory of the builder of a house, is greater than that of the edifice.
[4]For every house is built by some man; but he who buildeth all things is God.
[5]And Moses, as a servant, was faithful in all the house, for an attestation to those things that were to be spoken by him:
[6]but the Messiah as the SON, [is] over his own house; and we are his house, if we retain unto the end assurance, and the triumph of hope in him.
[7]Because the Holy Spirit hath said: To-day, if ye will hear his voice,
[8]harden not your hearts to anger him, like the provocators, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
[9]when your fathers tempted me, and proved, [and] saw my works forty years.
[10]Therefore I was disgusted with that generation, and said: This is a people, whose heart wandereth, and they have not known my ways:
[11]so that I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.
[12]Beware, therefore, my brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart that believeth not, and ye depart from the living God.
[13]But examine yourselves all the days, during the day which is called to-day; and let none of you be hardened, through the deceitfulness of sin.
[14]For we have part with the Messiah, if we persevere in this firm confidence, from the beginning to the end:
[15]as it is said, To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, to anger him.
[16]But who were they that heard, and angered him? It was not all they, who came out of Egypt under Moses.
[17]And with whom was he disgusted forty years, but with those who sinned, and whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
[18]and of whom swore he, that they should not enter into his rest, but of those who believed not?
[19]So we see that they could not enter, because they believed not.
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