Christ Is Superior to Moses
31Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, focus your attention on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. 2He was faithful to the one who appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in God's whole house. 3In fact, Jesus is worthy of greater glory than Moses, in the same way that the builder of a house has more honor than the house. 4For every house is built by someone, and God is the one who built everything.
5Moses was faithful as a servant within God's whole house by testifying to the things that would be spoken. 6But Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. We are his house, if we hold on firmly[] to our confidence and the hope about which we boast until the end.[] Do Not Harden Your Hearts
7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
Today, if you hear his voice,
8do not harden your hearts
as in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the wilderness.
9Your fathers tested and tried me,
even though they saw my works 10for forty years.
That is why I was angry with that generation
and said, “In their heart they are always going astray,
and they did not learn my ways.”
11So I swore an oath in my wrath,
“They will never enter my rest.”[] 12Watch out, brothers, so that there is not an evil, unbelieving heart in any of you that turns away from the living God. 13But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you are hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have become people who share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firmly until the end. 15As it is said:
Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.[] 16Who was it who heard and rebelled? Wasn't it all those who left Egypt, led by Moses? 17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Surely it was with the ones who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness, wasn't it? 18And about whom did he swear an oath that they would not enter his rest, if it wasn't concerning those who were disobedient? 19So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.