Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest 1 WBS Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ 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 WBS Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful 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 WBS For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath built the house, hath more honor 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 WBS For every house is built by some man ; 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 WBS And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterwards 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 WBS But Christ as a son over his own house: whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence, and the rejoicing of the 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 WBS Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye will hear his voice, BSB BSB: Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
8 WBS 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 WBS When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
10 WBS Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their 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 WBS So I swore 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 WBS Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing 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 WBS But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any 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 WBS For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast 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 WBS While it is said, To-day if ye will 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 WBS For some, when they had heard, did provoke: yet, 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 WBS But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses 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 WBS And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? BSB BSB: And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
19 WBS So 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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