< Hebrews 3 >
1 Wherefore, my holy brethren, who are called with a calling that is from heaven, consider this Legate and High Priest of our profession, Jesus the Messiah:
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
2 who was faithful to him that made him, as was Moses in all his house.
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful] in all his house.
3 For much greater is the glory of this man, than that of Moses; just as the glory of the builder of a house, is greater than that of the edifice.
For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
4 For every house is built by some man; but he who buildeth all things is God.
For every house is builded by some [man]; but he that built all things [is] God.
5 And Moses, as a servant, was faithful in all the house, for an attestation to those things that were to be spoken by him:
And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 but the Messiah as the SON, is over his own house; and we are his house, if we retain unto the end assurance, and the triumph of hope in him.
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.
7 Because the Holy Spirit hath said: To-day, if ye will hear his voice,
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 harden not your hearts to anger him, like the provocators, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 when your fathers tempted me, and proved, and saw my works forty years.
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Therefore I was disgusted with that generation, and said: This is a people, whose heart wandereth, and they have not known my ways:
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 so that I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Beware, therefore, my brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart that believeth not, and ye depart from the living God.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But examine yourselves all the days, during the day which is called to-day; and let none of you be hardened, through the deceitfulness of sin.
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have part with the Messiah, if we persevere in this firm confidence, from the beginning to the end:
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15 as it is said, To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, to anger him.
While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 But who were they that heard, and angered him? It was not all they, who came out of Egypt under Moses.
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 And with whom was he disgusted forty years, but with those who sinned, and whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 and of whom swore he, that they should not enter into his rest, but of those who believed not?
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter, because they believed not.
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.