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but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.
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Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
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Warning to Pay Attention
We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
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how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
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But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
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In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.
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Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.
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Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—
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and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
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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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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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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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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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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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Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
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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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For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.
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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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Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience,
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God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
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for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.
