Hebrews 3

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

Therefore, Christian Brothers, you who, all alike, have received the Call from Heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our Religion.

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

See how faithful he was to the God who appointed him, as Moses was in the whole House of God.

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

He has been deemed worthy of far higher honour than Moses, just as the founder of the House is held in greater regard than the House itself.

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

For every House has its founder, and the founder of the universe 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,

While the faithful service of Moses in the whole House of God was that of a servant, whose duty was to bear testimony to a Message still to come,

6 but Messiah is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope.

the faithfulness of Christ was that of a Son set over the House of God. And we are his House — if only we retain, unshaken to the end, the courage and confidence inspired by our hope.

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

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says — ‘If to-day you hear God’s voice,

8 do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me On the day when they tried my patience in the desert,

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

Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, And saw my mighty deeds for forty years.

10 Therefore I was displeased with this generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they did not know my ways;'

Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, And I said — “Their hearts are always straying; They have never learned my ways”;

11 as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

While in my wrath I swore — “They shall never enter upon my Rest.”’

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

Be careful, Brothers, that there is never found in any one of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by his separating himself 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.

Rather encourage one another daily — while there is a ‘To-day’ — to prevent any one among you from being hardened by the deceitfulness of Sin.

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

For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first.

15 while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

To use the words of Scripture — ‘If to-day you hear God’s voice, Harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me.’

16 For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, did not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

Who were they who heard God speak and yet provoked him? Were not they all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

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

And with whom was it that God was sorely vexed for forty years? Was not it with those who had sinned, and who fell dead in the desert?

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

And who were they to whom God swore that they should not enter upon his rest, if not those who had proved faithless?

19 We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

We see, then, that they failed to enter upon it because of their want of faith.