1 Therefore, my Christian friends, you who, all alike, have received the call from heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our religion. 2See how faithful he was to the God who appointed him, as Moses was in the whole house of God. 3He has been deemed worthy of far higher honor than Moses, just as the founder of the house is held in greater regard than the house itself. 4For every house has its founder, and the founder of the universe is God. 5While the faithful service of Moses in the whole house of God was that of a servant, whose duty was to bear testimony to a message still to come, 6the faithfulness of Christ was that of a son set over the house of God. And we are his house — if only we retain, unshaken to the end, the courage and confidence inspired by our hope. 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says — ‘If today you hear God’s voice,¶ 8harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me 9Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, 10Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, 11While in my wrath I swore — 12Be careful, friends, that there is never found in anyone of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by that person separating themselves from the living God. 13Rather encourage one another daily — while there is a ‘Today’ — to prevent anyone among you from being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first. 15To use the words of scripture — ‘If today you hear God’s voice, 16Who were they who heard God speak and yet provoked him? Were not they all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? 17And with whom was it that God was sorely vexed for forty years? Was not it with those who had sinned, and who fell dead in the desert? 18And who were they to whom God swore that they should not enter upon his rest, if not those who had proved faithless? 19We see, then, that they failed to enter upon it because of their want of faith.