Hebrews 3

1 Therefore, my Christian friends, you who, all alike, have received the call from heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our religion.

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

2 See how faithful he was to the God who appointed him, as Moses was in the whole house of God.

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

3 He has been deemed worthy of far higher honour than Moses, just as the founder of the house is held in greater regard than the house itself.

For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who builds it has more honor than the house.

4 For every house has its founder, and the founder of the universe is God.

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

5 While the faithful service of Moses in the whole house of God was that of a servant, whose duty was to bear testimony to a message still to come,

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

6 the faithfulness of Christ was that of a son set over the house of God. And we are his house – if only we retain, unshaken to the end, the courage and confidence inspired by our hope.

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.

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says – “If today you hear God’s voice,

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

8 harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me on the day when they tried my patience in the desert,

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

9 Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, and saw my mighty deeds for forty years.

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

10 Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, and I said – ‘Their hearts are always straying; they have never learned my ways’;

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;

11 While in my wrath I swore – ‘They will never enter upon my rest.’”

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

12 Be careful, friends, that there is never found in anyone of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by that person separating themselves from the living God.

Watch out, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

13 Rather encourage one another daily – while there is a today – to prevent anyone among you from being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

but exhort one another every day, while [it] is called “Today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin,

14 For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first.

for we have become partakers of the Christ, if we may hold fast the confidence [we had] at the beginning to the end,

15 To use the words of scripture – “If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me.”

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

16 Who were they who heard God speak and yet provoked him? Were not they all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

For who [were those], having heard, [that] provoked, but not all those having come out of Egypt through Moses?

17 And with whom was it that God was sorely vexed for forty years? Was not it with those who had sinned, and who fell dead in the desert?

But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

18 And who were they to whom God swore that they should not enter upon his rest, if not those who had proved faithless?

And to whom did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe?

19 We see, then, that they failed to enter upon it because of their want of faith.

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