Hebrews 3

1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

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

3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honour than the house.

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.

4 For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.

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

5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.

6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

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.

7 Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit (pneuma) says, To day if all of you will hear his voice,

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

8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

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

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always go astray in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

11 So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

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

12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;

We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.

15 While it is said, To day if all of you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”

16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: nevertheless not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

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

18 And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

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

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