Men Ipru 3

1 ME, ri ai jaraui kan, komail me pwaijanekier en lan a eker, komail madamadaua duen wanporon o jamero lapalap en atail lamalam: Iejuj.

My fellow believers, [God] has set you apart and has chosen you, just like he chose me. So consider Jesus. [He is God’s] messenger to us. He is also the Supreme Priest whom we say we believe in.

2 Me melel on i me kajapwilada i dueta Mojej me melel waja karoj mi nan tanpaj en Kot.

He faithfully [served God], who appointed him, just like Moses faithfully [served] God’s people [MTY].

3 Pwe linan en Ol menet me lapa jan linan en Mojej, dueta dueta amen, me wiadar im eu, me kaka jan im o.

Just like every house is made by someone {as someone makes every house}, Jesus made everything, and he is God/Divine. So God has considered that Jesus is worthy [that people honor] him more than they honor Moses, just like the one who builds a house deserves that people honor him more than they should honor the house [he built].

4 Pwe im karoj wiauieda ren aramaj amen, a me wiadar meakan karoj, mi karoj, iei Kot.

5 A Mojej me melel ni a koaki tanpaj en Kot, dueta papa amen, pwen jaunkadede en meakan me pan lokido.

Moses very faithfully [served God as he] ([helped/cared for]) [MET] God’s people, just like a servant [faithfully serves his master]. The result was that Moses testified about what Jesus would say later.

6 A Krijtuj me udan Na, ap melel nan pein tanpaj a. A tanpaj a iei kitail, ma kitail kolekoleta pojon o peren en kaporopor lau lel imwi.

But Christ [faithfully serves God as he] ([helps/cares for]) his own people [MTY, MET], just like a [son helps/cares for his own family]. And we are God’s people [MTY] if we continue to confidently [believe in Christ] and if we continue to confidently wait for [what God will do for us].

7 I me Nen jaraui kotin majani: Ran wet, ma komail pan ron kapitie,

The Holy Spirit [caused the Psalmist to write these words in the Scriptures to the Israelites]: Now, when you [(pl)] hear God speaking to you [MTY],

8 Komail der kapitakaila monion omail, due ni anjau en kaonion ni ran en jonejon nan jap tan.

do not stubbornly ([disobey/refuse to] obey [him]) [IDM], [as your Jewish ancestors stubbornly disobeyed him] when they rebelled against [him] in the desert. [At that time, God said to your ancestors], “They tried to determine how many [things that displeased me they could do] in the desert [without me punishing them].

9 Waja me jam omail akan kakaudud o kajojon ia o irail kilaner ai wiawia kan jaunpar paeijok.

Your ancestors repeatedly tested [whether I would be patient with them, even though] for 40 years they saw all the amazing things I did.

10 Iei me I makaraki pan ti o, ap inda: Monion arail kin poden japunla. A irail jolelapokki ai al akan.

So, I became disgusted with those people who saw those things, and I said [about them], ‘They are constantly disloyal to me, and they do not understand how I [wanted them] to conduct their lives.’

11 Iei me I kaukila ni ai makar: Irail jota pan konodi ai moleilei.

As a result, because I was angry with them, I solemnly declared, ‘They will not enter [the land of Canaan] where I would let them rest [MTY]!’”

12 Kalaka ri ai kan, pwe monion en amen de juedela, ap jo pojon o muei wei jan Kot ieiaj.

So, my fellow believers, be careful that none of you is so evil that you stop trusting [in Christ]. That would cause you to reject God who is all-powerful.

13 A komail panau pena ran karoj arain omail kak inda: Ran wet; pwe amen de kapitakai kila widin en dip.

Instead, each of you must encourage each other every day, while [you still have] the opportunity [IDM], in order that none of you may stubbornly [reject God] by [letting others] deceive you (OR, as you deceive yourselves), [with the result that] you [(sg)] sin [PRS].

14 Pwe kitail wialar kijan Krijtuj, ma kitail kolekoleta tapin atail liki lao imwijokela.

[We must encourage one another], because we [(inc)] benefit from [all] Christ [has done] only if we firmly keep trusting [in him] from the time when we first confidently [trusted in him] until [the time when] we die [EUP].

15 Duen a lokido: Ran wet, ma komail pan ron kapitie, komail de kapitakaila monion omail, due ni anjau en kaonion.

[We can do this] by paying attention to [what the Psalmist wrote in that Scripture passage in which] God said, Now, when you hear me speaking [to you(pl)] [MTY], do not stubbornly disobey me as [your ancestors stubbornly disobeyed me] when they rebelled [against me].

16 A ij irail, me kaudud on i ni ar ronadar? Kaidin irail karoj, me ko wei jan Akipten ren Mojej?

([You must keep trusting in God] because you must remember who it was who rebelled against God although they heard him speaking to them./Do you remember who it was who rebelled against God although they heard [him speaking to them]?) [RHQ] It was people who had certainly experienced [LIT] God’s power. It was all those people whom Moses led miraculously out of Egypt. [RHQ]

17 A ij irail, me a kotin onion kidar par paeijok? Kaidin irail, me wiadar dip, me war arail pupedi nan jap tan?

And ([you must remember] who it was that God was disgusted with for 40 years./do you [remember] who it was that God was disgusted with for 40years?) [RHQ] It was those same people who had sinned like that, and who as a result died in the desert! [RHQ]

18 A ij irail, me a kotin kaukila, me re jota pan konodi a moleilei? Kaidin irail eta, me jota peiki on i.

And ([you must remember] about whom God solemnly declared, “They will not enter the land where I would let them rest.”/do you [remember] about whom [God] solemnly declared, “They will not enter the land where I [would let them] rest”?) [RHQ] It was those Israelites who disobeyed God.

19 Ari, kitail diarada, me re jota kak, konodi, aki ar jo pojon.

So, from that example we [(inc)] realize that it was because they did not keep trusting [in God] that they were unable to enter [the land where they would rest].