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.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high-priest of our profession, Jesus;

2 He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.

who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses 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 he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as greater than the house is he who built it.

4 And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

For every house is builded by some one; but 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 indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, that he might testify of those things which 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 are we, if we hold fast the confidence and joyousness of our hope.

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

Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith: “To-day, if ye hear his voice,

8 do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

harden not 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.

where your fathers tempted me by proving me, and saw my works 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.’

Wherefore I was offended with that generation, and said, They always err in their heart, but they knew not my ways;

11 So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

so I swore in my wrath, They shall 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.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing 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 daily, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you may be hardened through 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 Christ, if we hold fast our first confidence firm 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.”

When it is said, “To-day, if ye hear his voice, harden not 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?

who then, when they had heard, provoked? Was it not all who came out of Egypt by means of Moses?

17 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And with whom was he offended 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 should not enter into his rest, except to those who were disobedient?

19 So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

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