Chapter 3

  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;  

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  Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful] in all his house.  

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  For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.  

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  For every house is builded by some [man]; but he that built all things [is] God.  

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  And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;  

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  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 unto the end.  

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  Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,  

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  Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:  

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  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.  

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  Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.  

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  So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)  

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  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.  

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  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  

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  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;  

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  While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.  

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  For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.  

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  But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?  

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  And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?  

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  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.  

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