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and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
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For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants.
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For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.
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Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
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Jesus Greater Than Moses
Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest.
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He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
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Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
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For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
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“Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.
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But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
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Warning Against Unbelief
So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice,
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do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,
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where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did.
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That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’
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So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
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See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
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But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
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We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
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As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.”
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And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?
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And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
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A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God
Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.
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Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’” And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.
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For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”
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And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”
