Heb 3 | ESV | STEP | Therefore , holy brothers , you who share in a heavenly calling , consider Jesus , the apostle and high priest of our confession ,

1 Therefore, holy brothers, ^{▼▼Or brothers and sisters; also verse 12} you who share in ^ba heavenly calling, consider Jesus, ^cthe apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, ^djust as Moses also was faithful in all God’s ^{▼▼Greek his; also verses 5, 6} house. 3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but ^fthe builder of all things is God.) 5 ^gNow Moses was faithful in all God’s house ^has a servant, ⁱto testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God’s house as ^ja son. And ^kwe are his house, if indeed we ^lhold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts insert firm to the end}

A Rest for the People of God

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

ⁿ“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for ^oforty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11 ^pAs I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from ^qthe living God. 13 But ^rexhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by ^sthe deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, ^tif indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,

^u“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16 For ^vwho were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not ^wall those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^xwhose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that ^ythey would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that ^zthey were unable to enter because of unbelief.