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;

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

2 Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.

who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as Moses also was 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 was accounted worthy of more honor than Moses, as he who hath built it, hath 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 He who 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;

Now Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of the things which were to 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 as a Son over his own house; whose house we are, if we maintain the free profession and exultation 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 Ghost saith, "To-day if ye will 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, when your fathers tempted me,

9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

proved 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;

wherefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, They are always erring in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

11 And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.

so I sware 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:

Take heed, my brethren, least there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in departing 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 daily, while it is called to-day; that none of you may be hardened through 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 are made partakers of Christ, if we hold fast our first confidence firm unto the end; inasmuch as it is said,

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.

"To-day if ye will hear his voice,

16 Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?

harden not your hearts, as in the provocation." For some that heard did provoke; but not all that came out of Egypt with 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?

But 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 that were disobedient?

19 So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.

and so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.