Hebrews 3

1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

So, my brothers and sisters who live for God and who share in this heavenly calling, we need to think carefully about Jesus—the one we say is sent by God, and is the High Priest.

2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful] in all his house.

He was faithful to God in the work he was chosen to do, just like Moses was faithful to God in God's house.

3 For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

But Jesus deserves much greater glory than Moses, in the same way that the builder of a house deserves more credit than the house.

4 For every house is builded by some [man]; but he that built all things [is] God.

Every house has its builder; God is the builder of everything.

5 And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

As a servant, Moses was faithful in God's house. He provided evidence of what would be announced later.

6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

But Christ is a son, in charge of God's house. And we are God's house as long as we hold on with confidence to the hope we boast we believe in.

7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

This is why the Holy Spirit says, “If you hear what God is saying to you today,

8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

don't have a hard-hearted attitude like the time you rebelled against him, when you tested him in the wilderness.

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Your fathers put me through it, trying my patience, and they saw the evidence I gave them for forty years.

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.

That generation made me angry and so I said, ‘They're always mistaken in what they think, and they don't know me or what I'm doing.’

11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

So in my frustration I vowed, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

Brothers and sisters, make sure that none of you has an evil mindset that's given up trusting in the God of life.

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Encourage each other every day while you still have “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and become hard-hearted.

14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

For we are partners with Christ as long as we hold on to our confidence in God from beginning to end.

15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

As Scripture says, “If you hear what God is saying to you today, don't have a hard-hearted attitude like the time you rebelled against him.”

16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Who was it that rebelled against God, even though they heard what he said? Wasn't it all those who were led out of Egypt by Moses?

17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

Who was God upset with for forty years? Wasn't it those who sinned, those who were buried in the desert?

18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

Who was God speaking of when he vowed they should not enter into his rest? Wasn't it those who disobeyed him?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

So we see that they were not able to enter because they didn't trust him.