Monday, January 3

5And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,

6but 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.

7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: 'Today, if you will hear His voice,

8Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,

9Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.

10Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, 'They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.'

11So I swore in My wrath,

12Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

13but exhort one another daily, while it is called 'Today,' lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,

15while it is said: 'Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.'

16For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?

17Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?

19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

27Then some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,

28saying: 'Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

29Now there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and died without children.

30And the second took her as wife, and he died childless.

31Then the third took her, and in like manner the seven also; and they left no children, and died.

32Last of all the woman died also.

33Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife does she become? For all seven had her as wife.'

34Jesus answered and said to them, 'The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.

35But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

36nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

37But even Moses showed in the burning bush passage that the dead are raised, when he called the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

38For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him.'

39Then some of the scribes answered and said, 'Teacher, You have spoken well.'

40But after that they dared not question Him anymore.

41And He said to them, 'How can they say that the Christ is the Son of David?

42Now David himself said in the Book of Psalms: 'The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at My right hand,

43Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.' '

44Therefore David calls Him 'Lord'; how is He then his Son?'