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

2. He was trustworthy to the one who appointed him, just like Moses, who remained trustworthy in all his household;

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

4. Every house is built by someone, of course; but God built everything that exists.

4. For every house is builded by some [man]; but he that built 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. And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

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 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.

7. That is why, as the Holy Spirit says: If only you would listen to him today!

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

8. Do not harden your hearts, as at the rebellion, as at the time of testing in the desert,

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

9. when your ancestors challenged me, and put me to the test, and saw what I could do

9. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works 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. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.

11. And then in my anger I swore that they would never enter my place of rest.

11. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into 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 heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing 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 daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through 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 are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto 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, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

16. who was it who listened and then rebelled? Surely all those whom Moses led out of Egypt.

16. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by 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. But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases 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 sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

19. So we see that it was their refusal to believe which prevented them from entering.

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