Hebrews 3

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

Therefore, my Christian friends, 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 Moses was in all 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, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.

He has been deemed worthy of far higher honor 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 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.

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 today you hear God’s voice,

8 don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, 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 tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, and saw my mighty deeds 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 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 will never enter upon 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;

Be careful, friends, that there is never found in anyone of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by that person separating themselves 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 today – to prevent anyone among you from being 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 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, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

To use the words of scripture – ‘If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me.’

16 For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led 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? Wasn’t 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 wouldn’t 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 weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

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