Hebrews 3
1 For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our profession;
2 Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.
being faithful to him who appointed him, as indeed Moses in all his house.
3 And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.
For he is esteemed worthy of more honor than Moses, inasmuch as the One having built it, has more honor than the house.
4 For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.
For every house is built by some one; and the one having built all things is God.
5 And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;
And Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, unto the testimony of those things which shall be spoken;
6 But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.
but Christ was as a son, over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and rejoicing of hope firm unto the end.
7 And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,
Therefore as the Holy Spirit says, This day if you hear his voice,
8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.
whom our fathers tempted in proving me, and saw my works forty years.
10 So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;
Therefore I was provoked with this generation, and I said, They do always err in their heart: and they have not known my way,
11 And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.
as I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
12 My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:
See, brethren, lest at some time there shall be in some one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God:
13 But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:
but exhort one another each day, while it is called to-day; in order that no one of you may be hardened with the deceitfulness of sin:
14 For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;
for we have been made partakers of Christ, if indeed we may hold fast the beginning of confidence firm unto the end.
15 As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.
In that it is said, This day if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation:
16 Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?
for who were those, having heard, who were hardened? yea, were they not all those having come out of Egypt under Moses?
17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?
And with whom was he provoked forty years? was it not with those that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?
And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not?
19 So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.
And we see that they were not able to enter in on account of their unbelief.
