Liturgy Gospel
Paulines Epistle
Paul, the servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, appointed to the Gospel of God.
A reading from the Epistle of our teacher Paul to the Hebrews .
May his blessings be upon us.
Amen.
Hebrews 3 : 1 - 4 : 2
Chapter 3
| 1 | Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,
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| 2 | who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house.
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| 3 | For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house.
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| 4 | For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.
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| 5 | And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,
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| 6 | but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
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| 7 | Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice,
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| 8 | Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,
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| 9 | Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.
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| 10 | Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, "They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.'
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| 11 | So I swore in My wrath, "They shall not enter My rest."'
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| 12 | Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
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| 13 | but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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| 14 | For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
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| 15 | while it is said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
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| 16 | For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?
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| 17 | Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
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| 18 | And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?
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| 19 | So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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Chapter 4
| 1 | Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
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| 2 | For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
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The grace of God the Father be with you all.
Amen.
