WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
contemplate the apostle and high-priest whom ye confess, Jesus Christ;
(2)who was faithful to him who appointed him, as Moses also was in all
his house. (3)For this personage hath been counted worthy of higher
glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built it, hath greater honour than
the house. (4)For every house is built by some person; but he who is
the architect of all things is God. (5)And Moses indeed was faithful in
all that house of his as a servant, to bear testimony of the things
which should be after spoken; (6)but Christ as a son over his own
house: whose house are we, if we hold firmly the confidence and
glorying of hope stedfast unto the end. (7)Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost
saith[131], To day if ye will hear his voice, (8)harden not your
hearts, as in that bitter provocation, at the day of the temptation in
the wilderness; (9)when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my
works during forty years. (10)Wherefore I was provoked against that
generation, and said, They are always deluded in heart, and they have
not known my ways: (11)so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter
into my rest. (12)Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any one of
you a wicked heart of infidelity, _evident_ in departure from the
living God: (13)but exhort one another daily, whilst to-day remains,
that no one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. (14)For we
are partakers with Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence
firm unto the end; (15)while it is said, To-day if ye will hear his
voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation. (16)For some,
though they had heard, provoked him; yet not all who came out of Egypt
by Moses. (17)But against whom was he incensed forty years? Was it not
against those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
(18)And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest,
but to those who did not believe? (19)So we see that they could not
enter in because of unbelief.