Hebrews 3

1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus Christ, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.

who was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.

3 For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.

Yet Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.

4 For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, which provided testimony to what would be spoken later.

6 but Christ 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.

But Christ is faithful over God's house as a Son. And we are his house if indeed we hold our confidence firm to the end along with the hope in which we boast.

7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,

8 don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

9 where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

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

10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

Therefore I was angry with that generation and said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.’

11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter my rest!’”

12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Brothers, make sure that none of you has an evil heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

13 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.

But encourage one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

For we have become sharers in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

15 while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16 For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

For some did rebel when they heard God's voice, but not all whom Moses led out of Egypt.

17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Now with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

And to whom did God swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?

19 We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

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