6. but Christ was faithful as a son placed over his house. We are his house, if [only] we hold fast to our confidence and pride in our hope.
7. Therefore, as the holy Spirit says:“Oh, that today you would hear his voice,
8. ‘Harden not your hearts as at the rebellionin the day of testing in the desert,
9. where your ancestors tested and tried meand saw my works
10. for forty years.Because of this I was provoked with that generationand I said, “They have always been of erring heart,and they do not know my ways.”
11. As I swore in my wrath,“They shall not enter into my rest.”’”
12. Take care, brothers, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God.
13. Encourage yourselves daily while it is still “today,” so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin.
14. We have become partners of Christ if only we hold the beginning of the reality firm until the end,