Our Apostle and High Priest

¹Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.[#3:1 Rm 15:8; Php 3:14; Heb 2:11,17; 4:14–15]

²He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God’s household.

³For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house.

⁴Now every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God.[#3:4 Eph 2:10; 3:9]

⁵Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future.[#3:5 Ex 14:31; Nm 12:7–8; Dt 18:19; 34:5; Jos 1:2,7,13,15; 11:12,15; 12:6; 1Kg 8:53,56; Mal 4:4]

⁶But Christ was faithful as a Son over his household. And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast. ,[#3:6 Other mss add firm to the end; #3:6 Mt 10:22; Rm 5:2; 11:22; 1Co 3:16; Heb 1:2]

Warning against Unbelief

⁷Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

¹²Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.[#3:12 Lk 8:13; Ac 15:38; 1Tm 4:1]

¹³But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today , so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.[#3:13 1Th 2:12; 2Th 3:12; Heb 10:25; #3:13 Ac 19:9; Rm 9:18; Heb 3:8,15; 4:7; #3:13 Eph 4:22; Heb 10:24]

¹⁴For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.[#3:14 Or confidence; #3:14 1Co 15:2; Heb 3:6; 10:23; 11:1]

¹⁵As it is said:

¹⁶For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses?[#3:16 Nm 14:2; Dt 1:35–38]

¹⁷With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?[#3:17 Nm 14:29; Ps 106:26]

¹⁸And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?

¹⁹So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.