1:1 In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; 1:2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 1:3 He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 1:4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has obtained is more excellent than theirs. 1:5 For to what angel did God ever say, "Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee"? Or again, "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son"? 1:6 And again, when he brings the first-born into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him." 1:7 Of the angels he says, "Who makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire." 1:8 But of the Son he says, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, the righteous scepter is the scepter of thy kingdom. 1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy comrades." 1:10 And, "Thou, Lord, didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands; 1:11 they will perish, but thou remainest; they will all grow old like a garment, 1:12 like a mantle thou wilt roll them up, and they will be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years will never end." 1:13 But to what angel has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet"? 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?

3:1 Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly call, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession. 3:2 He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in God's house. 3:3 Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house. 3:4 (For every house is built by some one, but the builder of all things is God.) 3:5 Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 3:6 but Christ was faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope. 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, when you hear his voice, 3:8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 3:9 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 3:10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.' 3:11 As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" 3:12 Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 3:13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 3:14 For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end, 3:15 while it is said, "Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." 3:16 Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? 3:17 And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 3:18 And to whom did he swear that they should never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 3:19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.