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3:1 Therefore, brothers and sisters, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 3:2 was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also "was faithful in all God's house." 3:3 Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 3:4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 3:5 Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later. 3:6 Christ, however, was faithful over God's house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope. 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice, 3:8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, as on the day of testing in the wilderness, 3:9 where your ancestors put me to the test, though they had seen my works 3:10 for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.' 3:11 As in my anger I swore, 'They will not enter my rest.'" 3:12 Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 3:13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 3:14 For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end. 3:15 As it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." 3:16 Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? 3:17 But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 3:18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient? 3:19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.