1Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus Christ, 2who was faithful to the one who had appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 3Yet Jesus is accounted worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house! 4Every house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God. 5Moses indeed was a faithful servant in all of God’s house, as a testimony for what would later on be spoken about. 6But Christ is faithful as a Son over his [own] house, and we are his house, if we firmly hold on to the confidence and pride of our hope until the end.2147 7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says:
Today if you will hear his voice,
8do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,
as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
9where your fathers tested me, tried me,
and saw my works for forty years.
10Therefore, I was displeased with that generation and said,
‘They always go astray in their heart,
they did not know my ways;’
11As I swore in my wrath,
‘They will not enter into my rest.’2148
A warning based on the example of Israel
12Beware, brethren, for fear that one of you may have an evil and unbelieving heart that would fall away from the living God. 13Instead, encourage one another day by day, as long as it is called “today,” for fear that one of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold on to our first confidence until the end, 15as long as these words apply:
Today if you will hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.2149
16But who is it that rebelled when they heard? Were they not all those that Moses had led out of Egypt? 17With whom was God2150 displeased for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest? Was it not to those who were disobedient? 19We see that they were not able to enter in because of [their] lack of faith.2151
God’s Sabbath rest
- CT omits “to the end”
- Psalm 95:7-11/94 LXX. NT agrees with LXX against MT.
- Psalm 95:7-8/94 LXX
- Greek “he”
- Or “unbelief”
Text: The Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible, New Testament (EOB). Used with permission.
