Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest 1 CPDV Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus. BSB BSB: Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
2 CPDV He is faithful to the One who made him, just as Moses also was, with his entire house. BSB BSB: He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
3 CPDV For this Jesus was considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, so much so that the house which he has built holds a greater honor than the former one. BSB BSB: For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
4 CPDV For every house is built by someone, but God is the One who has created all things. BSB BSB: And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5 CPDV And certainly Moses was faithful, with his entire house, like any servant, as a testimony to those things that would soon be said. BSB BSB: Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
6 CPDV Yet truly, Christ is like a Son in his own house. We are that house, if we firmly retain the faithfulness and the glory of hope, even unto the end. BSB BSB: But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
Do Not Harden Your Hearts (Psalm 95:1–11)
7 CPDV Because of this, it is just as the Holy Spirit says: “If today you hear his voice, BSB BSB: Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
8 CPDV harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, the very day of temptation, in the desert, BSB BSB: do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 CPDV where your fathers tested me, even though they had seen and examined my works for forty years. BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
10 CPDV For this reason, I was enraged against this generation, and I said: They always wander astray in heart. For they have not known my ways. BSB BSB: Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
11 CPDV So it is as I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!” BSB BSB: So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
The Peril of Unbelief 12 CPDV Be cautious, brothers, lest perhaps there may be, in any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, turning aside from the living God. BSB BSB: See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
13 CPDV Instead, exhort one another every day, while it is still called ‘today,’ so that none of you may become hardened through the falseness of sin. BSB BSB: But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
14 CPDV For we have been made participants in Christ. This is only so, if we firmly retain the beginning of his substance, even unto the end. BSB BSB: We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
15 CPDV For it has been said: “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, in the same manner as in the former provocation.” BSB BSB: As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
16 CPDV For some of those listening did provoke him. But not all of these had set forth from Egypt through Moses. BSB BSB: For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
17 CPDV So against whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not those who had sinned, whose dead bodies lay prostrate in the desert? BSB BSB: And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 CPDV But to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, except to those who were incredulous? BSB BSB: And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
19 CPDV And so, we perceive that they were not able to enter because of unbelief. BSB BSB: So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.