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Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, |
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being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house, |
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for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it, |
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for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build `is' God, |
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and Moses indeed `was' stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken, |
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and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast. |
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Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear -- |
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ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness, |
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in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years; |
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wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways; |
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so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- !') |
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See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God, |
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but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin, |
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for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast, |
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in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,' |
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for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses; |
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but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? |
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and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? -- |
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and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief. |