Chapter 3 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, who was
faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his
house.
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath
built the house hath more honor than the house.
For every house is built by some man, but he that built all things is God.
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant for a testimony of
those things which were to be spoken after.
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?
Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice,
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation in the day of temptation in
the wilderness.
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years, wherefore I
was grieved with that generation, and said, They do all way err in their
heart, and they have not known my ways.
So I swear in my wrath they shall not enter into my rest.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in
departing from the living God.
But exhort one another daily, while it is cold to-day, lest any of you be hardened
through the deceitfulness of sin.
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence
steadfast unto the end.
While it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts,
as in the provocation.
For some, when they had heard, did provoke, albeit not all that came out
of Egypt by Moses.
But with whom was he grieved forty years?
Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that
believed not?
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.