Hebrews 3

1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.

How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house!

3 For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.

For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, in so far as he who has built a house has higher honour than the house itself.

4 For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

For every house has had a builder, and the builder of all things is God.

5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

Moreover, Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant in delivering the message given him to speak;

6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

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.

7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

For this reason--as the Holy Spirit warns us, "To-day, if you hear His voice,

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

do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,

9 where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they did not know my ways.’

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.'

11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest" --

12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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.

13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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.

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

For we have, all alike, become sharers with Christ, if we really hold our first confidence firm to the End;

15 while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

seeing that the warning still comes to us, "To-day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation."

16 For who, when they heard, rebelled? Was not it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

For who were they that heard, and yet provoked God? Was it not the whole of the people who had come out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Was not it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?

18 To whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

And to whom did He swear that they should not be admitted to His rest, if it was not to those who were disobedient?

19 We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

And so we see that it was owing to lack of faith that they could not be admitted.