Grace be with you all.

So do not throw away your confidence, because it has great reward.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.

“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

But we passionately want each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of your hope until the end,

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

Greetings to all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

As it says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

Remember your leaders, who spoke God’s message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.

So God again ordains a certain day, “Today,” speaking through David after so long a time, as in the words quoted before, “O, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts.”

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.