Heb 3:0-4:14 | ESV | STEP | Therefore , holy brothers , you who share in a heavenly calling , consider Jesus , the apostle and high priest of our confession ,

1 Therefore, holy brothers, ^{▼▼Or brothers and sisters; also verse 12} you who share in ^ba heavenly calling, consider Jesus, ^cthe apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, ^djust as Moses also was faithful in all God’s ^{▼▼Greek his; also verses 5, 6} house. 3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but ^fthe builder of all things is God.) 5 ^gNow Moses was faithful in all God’s house ^has a servant, ⁱto testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God’s house as ^ja son. And ^kwe are his house, if indeed we ^lhold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts insert firm to the end}

A Rest for the People of God

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

ⁿ“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for ^oforty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11 ^pAs I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from ^qthe living God. 13 But ^rexhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by ^sthe deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, ^tif indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,

^u“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For ^vwho were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not ^wall those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^xwhose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that ^ythey would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that ^zthey were unable to enter because of unbelief.

Hebrews 4:1-14

1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem ^aato have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because ^abthey were not united by faith with those who listened. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts it did not meet with faith in the hearers} 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

^ad“As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest,’”
although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: ^ae“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” 5 And again in this passage he said,

^af“They shall not enter my rest.”
6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news ^agfailed to enter because of disobedience, 7 again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,

^ah“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God ^{▼▼Greek he} would not have spoken of another day later on. 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also ^ajrested from his works as God did from his.

11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so ^akthat no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 For ^althe word of God is living and ^amactive, ^ansharper than any ^aotwo-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and ^apdiscerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And ^aqno creature is hidden from his sight, but all are ^arnaked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Jesus the Great High Priest

14 Since then we have ^asa great high priest ^atwho has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, ^aulet us hold fast our confession.