1. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,
2. being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,
3. for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,
4. for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build [is] God,
5. and Moses indeed [was] stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,
6. and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.
7. Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear--
8. ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
9. in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;
10. wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;
11. so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--!')
12. See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,