Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest 1 DRA Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation, 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 DRA Who is faithful to him that made him, as was also Moses 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 DRA For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house, hath greater 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 DRA For every house is built by some man: but he that created all things, is God. BSB BSB: And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5 DRA And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be said: BSB BSB: Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
6 DRA But Christ as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope 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 DRA Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: Today if you shall hear his voice, BSB BSB: Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
8 DRA Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation; in the 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 DRA Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works, BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
10 DRA Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I 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 DRA As I have sworn 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 DRA Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart 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 DRA But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called today, that none of you be hardened through 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 DRA For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm 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 DRA While it is said, Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that 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 DRA For some who heard did provoke: but not all that 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 DRA And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown 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 DRA And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that 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 DRA And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief. BSB BSB: So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
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