Jesus is superior to Moses
1 This being the case, holy brothers and sisters who are associates of the heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and High Priest of our covenant. 2 He is faithful to the One who made him, just as Moses was out of all those in God’s house. 3 But this One is worthy of more honor than Moses, since the builder of the house is esteemed more highly than the house itself. 4 Every house is built by someone, but God built everything. 5 Certainly Moses was faithful in God’s house as one who could stand on his own two feet, which I’ll say more about later. 6 Yet Christ is Son over all his house. And we are that house, if we hold tightly to our hope with boldness and celebration. 7 So the Holy Spirit says:
“If you hear his voice today, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion during the day of temptation in the wilderness. 9 That was where your ancestors tested me after knowing full well what I had done over those forty years. 10 So I was disgusted with that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering, yet they do not know my ways.’ 11 And in my indignation I swore, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”
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12 So beware, brothers and sisters, against any one of you having a wicked and unbelieving heart, withdrawing from the living God. 13 Instead, encourage each other daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you will be hardened and seduced into sinning. 14 For we have become associates with Christ, if we hold tightly to our original hope to the end.
15 So while it is still called Today, if you hear his voice don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion. 16 For not everyone Moses led out of Egypt rebelled against him. 17 But who was he disgusted with for forty years? Those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness. 18 And who did he swear would never enter his rest? The disbelieving. 19 Now we can see that they were not able to enter because of disbelief.