Hebrews 3
1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of [the] heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,
Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.
2 who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses also in all his house.
How faithful he was to the God who appointed him! For while Moses also was faithful in all God’s house,
3 For he has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house.
Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built a house has higher honor than the house itself.
4 For every house is built by some one; but he who has built all things [is] God.
For every house has its builder; but he who built the universe is God.
5 And Moses indeed [was] faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after;
And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, bearing testimony to a witness about to be spoken;
6 but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are we, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.
but Christ as a Son in his own house; and we are that house, if we retain the cheerful courage and pride of our hope firm unto the end.
7 Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice,
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says. If you hear God’s voice today,
8 harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;
Continue not to harden your hearts as in the Provocation, On the day of temptation in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers tempted [me], by proving [me], and saw my works forty years.
When your forefathers tried my forbearance And saw my deeds for forty years.
10 Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways;
For this reason I was sore displeased with that generation, And said, "They are always wandering in their hearts; They have never learned my ways";
11 so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.
So I swore in my wrath, "They shall never enter into my rest."
12 See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from [the] living God.
See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.
13 But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
On the contrary, encourage each other daily, so long as there is a "Today," so that no one of you is hindered by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end;
For we are become comrades of the Christ, if we hold our first title deed firm until the very end.
15 in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;
In the words of Scripture, Today, if you hear his voice, Do not continue to harden your hearts as at the Provocation.
16 (for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but [was it] not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?
For who were they that heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
17 And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
And with whom was he grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?
And to whom did he swear that they should never enter into his rest, if not to those who had proved faithless?
19 And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief; )
So you see that it was through unbelief that they were not able to enter in.
