He calls upon us to hear and honour the word of Christ, who is more worthy than Moses. The punishment of persons who stubbornly harden their hearts.
3 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the celestial calling, consider the ambassador and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, even as Moses was in all his house. 3 And yet this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has prepared the house has more honour in the house.
4 Every house is built by some man. But he who ordained all things is God. 5 And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, to bear witness of those things that were to be spoken afterward. 6 But Christ as a son has rule over the house – whose house we are, if so be that we hold fast the confidence and the assurance of that hope to the end.
7 Therefore as the Holy Spirit says: Today if you hear his voice, 8 harden not your hearts, as in the rebellion in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years long. 10 Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do ever err in their hearts; they have not acknowledged my ways. 11 So I swore in my wrath that they would not enter into my rest.
12 Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you grow hard-hearted through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 We are partakers of Christ if we keep sure until the end the first confidence, 15 as long as it is said: Today, if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as when you rebelled. 16 For some, when they heard, rebelled – though not everyone who came out of Egypt under Moses. 17 But with whom was he displeased for forty years? Was he not displeased with those who sinned, whose bodies were overthrown in the desert? 18 To whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to those who did not believe? 19 And we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.