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