Hebrews, 3

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

1. Therefore, holy brothers, called to a supernatural vocation, consider Jesus, the apostle and High Priest of our faith.

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

2. He is faithful to God who appointed him, just as Moses was a faithful steward over God's household

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.

3. but Jesus deserves much greater honor than Moses, since he who builds the house is greater than the house.

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

4. As every house has a builder, God is the builder of all.

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;

5. It is said that Moses was found faithful as a servant of God over all his household, and as witness of a former revelation from God.

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.

6. Christ came as the Son, to whom the house belongs; and we are his household, provided that we stand firm in hope and courage.

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

7. Listen to what the Holy Spirit says: If only you would hear God's voice today!

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

8. Do not be stubborn, as they were in the place called Rebellion,

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

9. when your ancestors challenged me in the desert, although they had seen my deeds

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

10. for forty years. That is why I was angry with those people and said: Their hearts are always going astray and they do not understand my ways.

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

11. I was angry and made a solemn vow: They will never 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.

12. So, brothers, be careful lest some of you come to have an evil and unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

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

13. Encourage one another, day by day, as long as it is called today. Let no one become hardened in the deceitful way of sin.

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

14. We are associated with Christ provided we hold steadfastly to our initial hope until the end.

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

15. Scripture says: If you hear God's voice, do not be stubborn as they were in the place called Rebellion.

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

16. Who are those who having heard still rebelled? They were all those who came out of Egypt with Moses.

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

17. With whom was God angry for forty years? With those who sinned and whose bodies fell in the desert.

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

18. To whom did God swear that they would not enter into his rest? To those who had disobeyed.

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

19. We see then that unbelief prevented them from reaching their rest.