Hebrews 3

3:1 Brothers and sisters in Christ who belong to God, you share the call to be with him in heaven. So let us take time to think about Jesus. God sent him to us to show what he is like and to be the chief priest whom we trust. 3:2 He did what God sent him to do, just as Moses did in the house of God. 3:3 The person who builds a house gets more honour than the house. That is why Jesus gets more honour than Moses. 3:4 Every house has a builder, but God is the one who builds all things. 3:5 God told Moses what to do and he did it as the servant of God in all his house. Moses spoke about what God would say in the future. 3:6 Jesus Christ was true as a Son over the house of God. We are his house, if we keep our confidence and *boldly trust in him to the end.

3:7-8 So, as the Holy Spirit says, ‘Today, when you hear me speak, do not oppose what I say. That is what the Hebrew people did when they were in the desert. 3:9 There they tested me and tried me. They saw what I did for 40 years. 3:10 So I was angry with those people. I said, ‘Their hearts are always wrong. They have not known my ways’. 3:11 In my anger I declared, ‘They shall never enter my place of rest (Psalm 95:7-11)’. 3:12 Be careful, my Christian brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil heart that does not trust God. Such a heart will turn you away from the God who is alive and active. 3:13 Encourage each other daily, as long as it is still ‘today’, to be true to God. This is so that sin will not lead you away and your hearts become hard towards God. 3:14 We are partners with Christ, if we trust him to the end, as we did at first. 3:15 God is still saying, ‘Today, when you hear me speak, do not make your hearts hard. That is what the people in the desert did, when they turned away from me’. 3:16 Who heard God, yet turned away from him? It was the people whom Moses led out of the land of *Egypt. 3:17 Who made God angry for 40 years? It was the people who had turned away from him. These all died in the desert. 3:18 To whom did God declare that they would never enter his rest? It was the people who did not obey him. 3:19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because they did not trust God.