Hebrews 3

1 For this reason, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and Chief Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

2 being faithful to Him who appointed Him, as also Moses [was] 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 this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who builds it has more honor 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 someone, and He who built all things [is] God,

For every house has its builder; but he who built the universe is God.

5 and Moses [was] indeed steadfast in all His house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken—

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 a Son over His house, whose house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope 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 For this reason, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you may hear His voice—

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says. If you hear God’s voice today,

8 you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

Continue not to harden your hearts as in the Provocation, On the day of temptation in the wilderness,

9 in which your fathers tempted Me; they proved Me, and saw My works [for] forty years;

When your forefathers tried my forbearance And saw my deeds for forty years.

10 for this reason I was grieved with that generation and said, They always go astray in [their] heart, and these 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 anger, They will [not] enter into My rest.”

So I swore in my wrath, "They shall never enter into my rest."

12 Watch out, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling 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 exhort one another every day, while [it] is called “Today,” that none of you may 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 have become partakers of the Christ, if we may hold fast the confidence [we had] at the beginning to the end,

For we are become comrades of the Christ, if we hold our first title deed firm until the very end.

15 as it is said, “Today, if you may hear His voice, you may 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 [were those], having heard, [that] provoked, but not all those having come out of Egypt through 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 But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses 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 did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe?

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 were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

So you see that it was through unbelief that they were not able to enter in.