[1] For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven,
give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith; [2]
Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all
his house. [3] And it was right for this man to have more honour than
Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house. [4]
For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God. [5]
And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a
witness of those things which were to be said later; [6] But Christ as a
son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the
glad and certain hope till the end. [7] And so, as the Holy Spirit says,
Today if you let his voice come to your ears, [8] Be not hard of heart, as
when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land, [9] When
your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years. [10] So
that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in
error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways; [11] And being
angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest. [12] My
brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil
heart without belief, turning away from the living God: [13] But give
comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no
one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin: [14] For if we keep
the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we
have a part with Christ; [15] As it is said, Today if you will let his
voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.
[16] Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those
who came out of Egypt with Moses? [17] And with whom was he angry for forty
years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the
waste land? [18] And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come
into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders? [19] So we
see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.