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:

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 who was faithful to him that made him, as was Moses 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 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 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 some man; but he who buildeth all things is God.

For every house has had a builder, and the builder of 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:

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

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 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 Because the Holy Spirit hath said: To-day, if ye will hear his voice,

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

8 harden not your hearts to anger him, like the provocators, and as in the day of 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 when your fathers tempted me, and proved, and saw my works forty years.

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

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 that I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to 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.

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 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.

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 part with the Messiah, if we persevere in this firm confidence, from 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, To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, to anger him.

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 But who were they that heard, and angered him? It was not all they, who came out of Egypt under 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 And with whom was he disgusted forty years, but with those who sinned, and 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 of whom swore he, that they should not enter into his rest, but of those who believed not?

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 So we see that they could not enter, because they believed not.

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