Wahebrania 3
1 Kwa hiyo, ndugu watakatifu, washiriki wa wito wa mbinguni, mumfikiri Yesu, Mtume na Kuhani Mkuu wa ukiri wetu.
Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
2 Alikuwa mwaminifu kwa Mungu aliyemteua, kama Musa alivyokuwa mwaminifu pia katika nyumba yote ya Mungu.
who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in his house.
3 Kwa kuwa Yesu amehesabiwa kuwa na heshima kubwa kuliko aliyokuwa nayo Musa, kwa sababu yule anayejenga nyumba anahesabiwa kuwa na heshima kubwa kuliko nyumba yenyewe.
For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, just as he who built the house has more honor than the house.
4 Kwa kuwa kila nyumba hujengwa na mtu fulani, lakini yule anayejenga kila kitu ni Mungu.
For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
5 Hakika Musa alikuwa mwaminifu kama mtumishi katika nyumba yote ya Mungu, akitoa ushuhuda kuhusu mambo yatakayosemwa wakati ujao.
Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
6 Lakini Kristo ni Mwana katika usimamizi wa nyumba ya Mungu. Sisi ni nyumba yake kama tutashikilia haraka katika kujiamini na fahari ya kujiamini.
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope.
7 Kwa hiyo, ni kama Roho Mtakatifu asemavyo, “Leo, kama utasikia sauti yake,
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,
8 Usiufanye moyo wako kuwa mgumu kama Waisraeli walivyofanya katika uasi, katika wakati wa kujaribiwa nyikani.
do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
9 Huu ulikuwa wakati ambao baba zenu waliniasi kwa kunijaribu, na wakati, kwa miaka arobaini, waliona matendo yangu.
where your fathers tested me and challenged me, and saw my works for forty years.
10 Kwa hiyo sikufurahishwa na kizazi hicho. Nilisema, 'Wanapotea kila mara katika mioyo yao, na hawajui njia zangu.
Therefore I was displeased with this generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they did not know my ways;'
11 Ni kama vile nilivyoapa katika hasira yangu: hawataiingia raha yangu.”
as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"
12 Muwe waangalifu, ndugu, ili kwamba usije ukawepo moyo mwovu wa kutokuamini kwa mmoja wenu, moyo ambao utakwenda mbali na Mungu aliye hai.
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
13 Badala yake, mhamasishane kila siku kila mmoja na mwenzie, ili kila iitwapo leo mtamani, ili kwamba mmoja kati yenu asifanywe kuwa mgumu kwa udanganyifu wa dhambi.
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 Kwa maana tumekuwa washiriki wa Kristo ikiwa tutashikamana na uthabiti wetu kwa nguvu katika yeye kutoka mwanzo hadi mwisho.
For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
15 Kuhusu hili imekwisha kusemwa, “Leo kama mtaisikiliza sauti yake, msiifanye mioyo yenu kuwa migumu, kama Waisraeli walivyofanya wakati wa uasi.”
while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."
16 Ni akina nani hao waliomsikia Mungu na kuasi? Hawakuwa wale wote ambao Musa alikuwa amewaongoza kutoka Misri?
For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, did not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?
17 Na kina nani ambao Mungu aliwakasirikia kwa miaka arobaini? Siyo pamoja na wale waliotenda dhambi, ambao miili yao iliyokufa ililala jangwani?
With whom was he displeased forty years? Was not it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 Ni akina nani aliowaapia Mungu kwamba hawataingia katika raha yake, kama siyo wale ambao hawakumtii yeye?
To whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
19 Tunaona kwamba hawakuweza kuingia katika raha yake kwa sababu ya kutokuamini.
We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
