For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.

Jesus Our High Priest

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus;

For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house.

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;

but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the boast of our hope.

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice,

Where your fathers put Me to the test, And saw My works for forty years.

Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways’;

As I swore in My anger, ‘They certainly shall not enter My rest.’”

The Danger of Unbelief

Take care, brothers and sisters, that there will not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

But encourage one another every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

while it is said, “Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”

And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?

And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

The Believer’s Rest

Therefore, we must fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.

For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, “As I swore in My anger, They certainly shall not enter My rest,” although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;

and again in this passage, “They certainly shall not enter My rest.”

Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who previously had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,

He again sets a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, “Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.”

For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.

Consequently, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Therefore let’s make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience.