Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest 1 ULT Therefore, holy brothers, sharers of a heavenly calling, consider carefully 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 ULT being faithful to the one having appointed him, as also Moses{ was} in his house. BSB BSB: He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
3 ULT For this one has been considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, according to how much greater honor the one building it has{ 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 ULT For every house is built by someone, but God{ is} the one having built all things. BSB BSB: And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5 ULT And Moses{ was} indeed faithful as a servant in his entire house, for a testimony of the{ things that} would be spoken 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 ULT but Christ, as a Son over his house(whose house we are if we hold fast to the confidence and the boasting of our hope). 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 ULT Therefore, 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 ULT do not harden your hearts as in the provocation, during the day 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 ULT where your fathers tested{ me} by examination, and they saw my works BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
10 ULT for 40 years. Therefore, I was very angry with that generation, and I said,‘They are always going astray in their hearts, 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 ULT As I swore in my wrath,‘… if they will 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 ULT Watch out, brothers, so that there will not be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in the falling 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 ULT Instead, exhort one another every day, as long as it is called“today,” so that no one among you is 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 ULT For we have become sharers of Christ, if indeed we hold firm the beginning of our confidence until 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 ULT while it is 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 ULT For which ones, having heard, provoked{ him}?{ Was it} not all the ones having come out 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 ULT And with whom was he very angry for 40 years?{ Was it} not with the ones having sinned, whose corpses 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 ULT And to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, if not to the ones having disobeyed? BSB BSB: And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
19 ULT And we see 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.