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