NETtext - Hebrews - 3

3:1  Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess,

3:2  who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God's house.

3:3  For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

3:4  For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

3:5  Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

3:6  But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.

3:7  Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

3:8  "Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

3:9  "There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

3:10  "Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, 'Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.'

3:11  "As I swore in my anger, 'They will never enter my rest!'"

3:12  See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

3:13  But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called "Today," that none of you may become hardened by sin's deception.

3:14  For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.

3:15  As it says, "Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

3:16  For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses' leadership?

3:17  And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

3:18  And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

3:19  So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.