Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest 1 UEB Therefore, holy brothers, you share in a heavenly calling. Think about Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession. 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 UEB He was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses was also faithful in God's house. BSB BSB: He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
3 UEB For Jesus has been considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, because the one who builds a house has more honor than the house itself. 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 UEB For every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God. BSB BSB: And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5 UEB For Moses was faithful as a servant in God's entire house, bearing witness about the things that were to be spoken of in the future. BSB BSB: Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
6 UEB But Christ is faithful as a Son who is in charge of God's house. We are his house if we hold fast to our courage and the hope of which we boast. 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 UEB Therefore, it is just as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice BSB BSB: Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
8 UEB do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the time of testing 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 UEB This was when your ancestors rebelled by testing me, and when, during forty years, they saw my deeds. BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
10 UEB Therefore I was displeased with that generation. I said, 'They have always gone astray in their hearts. 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 UEB It is just as I swore in my anger: 'They will never enter my rest.'" BSB BSB: So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
The Peril of Unbelief 12 UEB Be careful, brothers, so that among you there will not be anyone with an evil heart of unbelief, a heart that turns 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 UEB Instead, encourage one another daily, as long as it is called "today," so that no one among you will 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 UEB For we have become partners of Christ if we firmly hold to our confidence in him from the beginning 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 UEB About this it has been said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion." 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 UEB Who was it who heard God and rebelled? Was it not all those who came out of 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 UEB With whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies 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 UEB To whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if it was not to those who disobeyed him? BSB BSB: And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
19 UEB We see that they were not able to enter his rest 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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