003:004 For every house has had a builder, and the builder of all
things is God.
003:005 Moreover, Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant
in delivering the message given him to speak;
003:006 but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.
003:007 For this reason—as the Holy Spirit warns us, "To-day, if you
hear His voice,
003:008 do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time
of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,
003:009 where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw
all that I did during forty years.
003:010 Therefore I was greatly grieved with that generation, and I said, `They are ever going astray in heart, and have not learnt to know My paths.'
003:011 As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest"—
003:012 see to it, brethren, that there is never in any one of you—
as perhaps there may be—a sinful and unbelieving heart,
manifesting itself in revolt from the ever-living God.
003:013 On the contrary encourage one another, day after day, so long
as To-day lasts, so that not one of you may be hardened
through the deceitful character of sin.