< Hebrews 3 >

1 Because of which, holy brothers, companions of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our affirmation, Jesus Christ,
Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus.
2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.
He is faithful to the One who made him, just as Moses also was, with his entire house.
3 For this man was considered worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he who built it has more esteem than the house.
For this Jesus was considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, so much so that the house which he has built holds a greater honor than the former one.
4 For every house is built by some man, but he who built all things is God.
For every house is built by someone, but God is the One who has created all things.
5 And Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of the things that were going to be spoken,
And certainly Moses was faithful, with his entire house, like any servant, as a testimony to those things that would soon be said.
6 but Christ as a Son over his house, whose house we are, if only we keep in possession our confidence and pride of hope, firm until the end.
Yet truly, Christ is like a Son in his own house. We are that house, if we firmly retain the faithfulness and the glory of hope, even unto the end.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if ye hear his voice,
Because of this, it is just as the Holy Spirit says: “If today you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, according to the day of the trial in the wilderness,
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, the very day of temptation, in the desert,
9 where your fathers challenged me, tested me, and saw my works forty years.
where your fathers tested me, even though they had seen and examined my works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways.
For this reason, I was enraged against this generation, and I said: They always wander astray in heart. For they have not known my ways.
11 So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest.
So it is as I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!”
12 Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.
Be cautious, brothers, lest perhaps there may be, in any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, turning aside from the living God.
13 But exhort each other during each day, while it is called Today, lest any of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Instead, exhort one another every day, while it is still called ‘today,’ so that none of you may become hardened through the falseness of sin.
14 For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,
For we have been made participants in Christ. This is only so, if we firmly retain the beginning of his substance, even unto the end.
15 while it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
For it has been said: “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, in the same manner as in the former provocation.”
16 For some who heard rebelled, but not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses.
For some of those listening did provoke him. But not all of these had set forth from Egypt through Moses.
17 But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
So against whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not those who had sinned, whose dead bodies lay prostrate in the desert?
18 And to whom did he swear were not going to enter into his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?
But to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, except to those who were incredulous?
19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
And so, we perceive that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

< Hebrews 3 >