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 brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

2 being faithful to Him who appointed Him, as also Moses [was] in all His house.

How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him, just as 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.

For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, in so far as he who has built a house has higher honour than the house itself.

4 For every house is built by someone, and He who built all things [is] God,

For every house has had a builder, and the builder of all things 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—

Moreover, Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant in delivering the message given him to speak;

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 was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.

7 For this reason, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you may hear His voice—

For this reason--as the Holy Spirit warns us, "To-day, if you hear His voice,

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

do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,

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

where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during 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;

Therefore I was greatly grieved with that generation, and I said, 'They are ever going astray in heart, and have not learnt to know My paths.'

11 so I swore in My anger, They will [not] enter into My rest.”

As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to 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, brethren, that there is never in any one of you--as perhaps there may be--a sinful and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in revolt from the ever-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 one another, day after day, so long as To-day lasts, so that not one of you may be hardened through the deceitful character 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 have, all alike, become sharers with Christ, if we really hold our first confidence firm to the End;

15 as it is said, “Today, if you may hear His voice, you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation.”

seeing that the warning still comes to us, "To-day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of 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 God? Was it not the whole of the people who had come 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 God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?

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 not be admitted to His rest, if it was not to those who were disobedient?

19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

And so we see that it was owing to lack of faith that they could not be admitted.