KumaHebheru 3
1 Ngakho, bazalwane abangcwele, bahlanganyeli bobizo lwasezulwini, qaphelani umphostoli lompristi omkhulu wovumo lwethu, uKristu Jesu,
Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Emissary and High Priest of our confession: Yeshua,
2 othembeke kulowo owammisayo, njengoMozisi laye wayenjalo endlini yakhe yonke.
who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.
3 Ngoba kwathiwa lo ufanele udumo olukhulu kuloMozisi, njengoba ulodumo olukhulu kulendlu ayakhileyo.
For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
4 Ngoba yonke indlu yakhiwa ngothile; kodwa owakha izinto zonke nguNkulunkulu.
For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
5 UMozisi kambe wayethembekile endlini yonke yakhe njengenceku, kuze kube yibufakazi bezinto ebezizakhulunywa;
Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
6 kodwa uKristu njengendodana phezu kwendlu yakhe; esiyindlu yakhe thina, uba-ke sibambelela ngokuqina isibindi lokuziqhenya kwethemba kuze kube sekupheleni.
but Messiah is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
7 Ngakho njengoba uMoya oyiNgcwele esithi: Lamuhla uba lilizwa ilizwi lakhe,
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
8 lingazenzi zibe lukhuni inhliziyo zenu, njengekucunuleni, ngosuku lokulingwa enkangala,
don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
9 lapho oyihlo bangilinga, bengihlola, basebebona imisebenzi yami okweminyaka engamatshumi amane;
where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.
10 ngakho ngasithukuthelela lesosizukulwana, ngathi: Bayaduha kokuphela enhliziyweni; lalaba kabazazanga indlela zami;
Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’
11 ngaze ngafunga ekuthukutheleni kwami ngathi: Kabayikungena ekuphumuleni kwami.
As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”
12 Nanzelelani, bazalwane, hlezi kuzakuba khona loba nini phakathi komunye wenu inhliziyo embi yokungakholwa, ekuduheni kuNkulunkulu ophilayo;
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
13 kodwa khuthazanani insuku ngensuku, kusathiwa lamuhla, ukuze kungabi khona kini owenziwa lukhuni ngenkohliso yesono;
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 ngoba sesibe ngabahlanganyeli bakaKristu, uba-ke sibambisisa isiqalo sokuqiniseka kuze kube sekupheleni;
For we have become partakers of Messiah, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,
15 kusathiwa: Lamuhla uba lilizwa ilizwi lakhe, lingazenzi zibe lukhuni inhliziyo zenu, njengekucunuleni.
while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
16 Ngoba abanye sebezwile bathukuthelisa, kodwa kakusibo bonke labo abaphuma eGibhithe ngoMozisi.
For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
17 Kodwa ngobani athukutheliswa yibo okweminyaka engamatshumi amane? Kakusibo labo abonayo yini, abazidumbu zabo zawela enkangala?
With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 Ngobani-ke afunga kubo ukuthi kabazukungena ekuphumuleni kwakhe, ngaphandle kwalabo abangalalelanga?
To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
19 Ngakho siyabona ukuthi babengelakungena ngenxa yokungakholwa.
We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.
