, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest
in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the
people. (18)For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is
able to help those who are tempted.

III.

WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider
the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Jesus, (2)who was
faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all His house.
(3)For he has been accounted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch
as he who has built the house has more honor than the house. (4)For
every house is builded by some one; but he who built all things is
God. (5)And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant,
as a testimony of the things which were to be afterward spoken; (6)but
Christ as son over His house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the
boldness and the joyousness of the hope firm unto the end[3:6].

(7)Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

To-day, if ye will hear his voice,
(8)Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation,
In the day of the temptation in the wilderness;
(9)Where your fathers tempted me,
Proved me, and saw my works, forty years.
(10)Wherefore, I was offended with that generation;
And I said: They always go astray in their heart,
And they knew not my ways;
(11)As I swore in my wrath,
They shall not enter into my rest.

(12)Take heed, brethren, lest there shall be in any one of you an evil
heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. (13)But exhort
one another daily, as long as it is called To-day, that no one of you
may be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (14)For we have
become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our
confidence firm unto the end. (15)When it is said: To-day, if ye will
hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation; (16)who
then, when they had heard, provoked? Nay, was it not all who came
forth out of Egypt by Moses? (17)But with whom was he offended forty
years? Was it not with those who sinned? whose carcasses fell in the
wilderness. (18)And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter
into his rest, but to those who believed not? (19)And we see that they
were not able to enter in, because of unbelief.

IV.

LET us fear therefore, lest, a promise being still left us of entering
into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.
(2)For to us wer