Hebrews 3

1Holy brothers and sisters, God called you to share in heavenly blessings. Look closely and think carefully about Jesus! He is the Apostle and High Priest of the faith we confess.

2Jesus was faithful to the God who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.

3But Jesus deserves more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves more honor than the house itself.

4Every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

5Moses was faithful as a servant inside God's entire household. He pointed to the things God would say later.

6Christ rules faithfully as the Son over God's own family! And we are His spiritual house if we hold tightly to our bold courage and the hope we are proud of.

7So, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear His voice,

8Do not close your minds and become stubborn against God! Do not act like your ancestors when they rebelled in the dry desert.

9There your ancestors tested me and tried me, even though for forty years they saw what I did.

10That is why I was angry with that generation. I said: Their hearts are always going the wrong way, and they have not known my ways.

11In my anger I swore an oath: They will never enter my land of peaceful rest!

12So be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

13Instead, encourage one another every day, every day that is still called Today. Do not let the lies of sin make your hearts stubborn and closed.

14We share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the confidence we had at the start.

15As the Scripture says: Today, if you hear His voice, do not close your minds and become stubborn, the way you did when you turned against God.

16Who were those who heard and turned against God? Were they not all the people Moses led out of Egypt?

17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell dead in the desert?

18And to whom did God promise that they would never enter His land of peaceful rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

19They were locked out because they refused to believe!