Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest 1 DBY Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of 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 DBY who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses also in all his house. BSB BSB: He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
3 DBY For he has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house. 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 DBY For every house is built by some one; but he who has built all things is God. BSB BSB: And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5 DBY And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after; BSB BSB: Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
6 DBY but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are we, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to 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 DBY Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice, BSB BSB: Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
8 DBY harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness; BSB BSB: do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 DBY where your fathers tempted me , by proving me , and saw my works forty years. BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
10 DBY Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and 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 DBY so I swore in my wrath, If they shall 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 DBY See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away 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 DBY But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness 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 DBY For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to 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 DBY in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the 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 DBY (for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but was it not all who came out of Egypt by Moses? BSB BSB: For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
17 DBY And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 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 DBY And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word? BSB BSB: And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
19 DBY And we see that they could not enter in on account 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.