Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest 1 RV Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even 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 RV who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was 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 RV For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath 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 RV For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God. BSB BSB: And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5 RV And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken; BSB BSB: Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
6 RV but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm 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 RV Wherefore, even as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye shall hear his voice, BSB BSB: Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
8 RV Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the 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 RV Wherewith 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 RV Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do alway err in their heart: But they did not know 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 RV As I sware 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 RV Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in 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 RV but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called Today; lest any one 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 RV for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence 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 RV while it is said, Today if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not 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 RV For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they 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 RV And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that 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 RV And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient? BSB BSB: And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
19 RV And we see that they were not able to 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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