< Hebrews 3 >

1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
For this reason, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and Chief Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,
2 He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
being faithful to Him who appointed Him, as also Moses [was] in all His house.
3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who builds it has more honor than the house.
4 And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
For every house is built by someone, and He who built all things [is] God,
5 Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
and Moses [was] indeed steadfast in all His house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken—
6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
but Christ, as a Son over His house, whose house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope to the end.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
For this reason, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you may hear His voice—
8 do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
in which your fathers tempted Me; they proved Me, and saw My works [for] forty years;
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
for this reason I was grieved with that generation and said, They always go astray in [their] heart, and these have not known My ways;
11 So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
so I swore in My anger, They will [not] enter into My rest.”
12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
Watch out, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,
13 But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
but exhort one another every day, while [it] is called “Today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin,
14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
for we have become partakers of the Christ, if we may hold fast the confidence [we had] at the beginning to the end,
15 As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
as it is said, “Today, if you may hear His voice, you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation.”
16 For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
For who [were those], having heard, [that] provoked, but not all those having come out of Egypt through Moses?
17 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
And to whom did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe?
19 So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

< Hebrews 3 >