Hebrews 3

1 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.

So then, holy brothers, you who share in the celestial calling, do contemplate the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus Christ!

2 How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house!

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

3 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.

For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than was Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself

4 For every house has had a builder, and the builder of all things is God.

—every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God—

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

also, Moses was indeed faithful as a servant in all His house, providing evidence of those things that would later be spoken,

6 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.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over His house, whose house are we, if, that is, we hold fast the confidence, even the boast, of the Hope firm to the end.

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

Therefore—just as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you would hear His voice,

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

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, during the time of the testing in the desert,

9 where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

where your fathers tested me, proved me and saw my works for forty years.

10 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.'

In consequence I became very angry with that generation and said, ‘Their heart always leads them astray; they have not known my ways.’

11 As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest" --

So I took an oath in my wrath, ‘As if they will ever enter my rest!’”

12 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.

—take care, brothers, that there not be a malignant heart of unbelief in any of you, so as to go away from the living God;

13 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.

rather, exhort yourselves every day, while it is called ‘today’, so that none of you be hardened through sin's deceitfulness.

14 For we have, all alike, become sharers with Christ, if we really hold our first confidence firm to the End;

For we have become associates of the Christ, if, that is, we hold fast the beginning of the Endeavor firm to the end,

15 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."

while it is still being said, “Today, if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16 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?

So who were they who, upon hearing, rebelled? Really now, was it not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

17 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?

And with whom was He[F] angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

18 And to whom did He swear that they should not be admitted to His rest, if it was not to those who were disobedient?

Or to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, if not to those who disobeyed?

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

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