Hebrews 3:1-13 ▼

1 Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

2 How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house!

3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, in so far as he who has built a house has higher honour than the house itself.

4 For every house has had a builder, and the builder of all things is God.

5 Moreover, Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant in delivering the message given him to speak;

6 but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.

7 For this reason--as the Holy Spirit warns us, "To-day, if you hear His voice,

8 do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,

9 where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

10 Therefore I was greatly grieved with that generation, and I said, 'They are ever going astray in heart, and have not learnt to know My paths.'

11 As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest" --

12 see to it, brethren, that there is never in any one of you--as perhaps there may be--a sinful and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in revolt from the ever-living God.

13 On the contrary encourage one another, day after day, so long as To-day lasts, so that not one of you may be hardened through the deceitful character of sin.