1Wherefore , holy brethren , partakers of the heavenly calling , consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession , Christ Jesus ; 2Who was faithful to him that appointed him , as also Moses was faithful in all his house . 3For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses , in asmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house . 4For every house is builded by some man ; but he that built all things is God . 5And Moses verily was faithful in all his house , as a servant , for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after ; 6But Christ as a son over his own house ; whose house are we , if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end .
Warning Against Unbelief
7Wherefore ( as the Holy Ghost saith , To day if ye will hear his voice , 8Harden not your hearts , as in the provocation , in the day of temptation in the wilderness : 9When your fathers tempted me , proved me , and saw my works forty years . 10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation , and said , They do alway err in their heart ; and they have not known my ways . 11So I sware in my wrath , They shall not enter into my rest .) 12Take heed , brethren , lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief , in departing from the living God . 13But exhort one another daily , while it is called To day ; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin . 14For we are made partakers of Christ , if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end ; 15While it is said , To day if ye will hear his voice , harden not your hearts , as in the provocation . 16For some , when they had heard , did provoke : howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses . 17But with whom was he grieved forty years ? was it not with them that had sinned , whose carcases fell in the wilderness ? 18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest , but to them that believed not ? 19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief .