Hebrews, 3
1. That is why all you who are holy brothers and share the same heavenly call should turn your minds to Jesus, the apostle and the high priest of our profession of faith.
1. Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly call, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
2. He was trustworthy to the one who appointed him, just like Moses, who remained trustworthy in all his household;
2. He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in God's house.
3. but he deserves a greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house is more honoured than the house itself.
3. Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house.
4. Every house is built by someone, of course; but God built everything that exists.
4. (For every house is built by some one, but the builder of all things is God.)
5. It is true that Moses was trustworthy in the household of God, as a servant is, acting as witness to the things which were yet to be revealed,
5. Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,
6. but Christ is trustworthy as a son is, over his household. And we are his household, as long as we fearlessly maintain the hope in which we glory.
6. but Christ was faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope.
7. That is why, as the Holy Spirit says: If only you would listen to him today!
7. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, when you hear his voice,
8. Do not harden your hearts, as at the rebellion, as at the time of testing in the desert,
8. do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9. when your ancestors challenged me, and put me to the test, and saw what I could do
9. where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
10. for forty years. That was why that generation sickened me and I said, 'Always fickle hearts, that cannot grasp my ways!'
10. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, `They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.'
11. And then in my anger I swore that they would never enter my place of rest.
11. As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest.'"
12. Take care, brothers, that none of you ever has a wicked heart, so unbelieving as to turn away from the living God.
12. Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
13. Every day, as long as this today lasts, keep encouraging one another so that none of you is hardened by the lure of sin,
13. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14. because we have been granted a share with Christ only if we keep the grasp of our first confidence firm to the end.
14. For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,
15. In this saying: If only you would listen to him today; do not harden your hearts, as at the Rebellion,
15. while it is said, "Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
16. who was it who listened and then rebelled? Surely all those whom Moses led out of Egypt.
16. Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
17. And with whom was he angry for forty years? Surely with those who sinned and whose dead bodies fell in the desert.
17. And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18. To whom did he swear they would never enter his place of rest? Surely those who would not believe.
18. And to whom did he swear that they should never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
19. So we see that it was their refusal to believe which prevented them from entering.
19. So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
