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

So then, brethren, consecrated and set apart for God, who share in the heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest Whom we confessed.

2 w ho was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

faithful He was to Him Who appointed Him, as Moses was also faithful in the whole house.

3 F or this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

Yet Jesus has been considered worthy of much greater honor and glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house.

4 F or every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

For every house is built and furnished by someone, but the Builder of all things and the Furnisher is God.

5 A nd Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

And Moses certainly was faithful in the administration of all God’s house as a ministering servant. a testimony to the things which were to be spoken.

6 b ut 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.

But Christ (the Messiah) was faithful over His house as a Son. And it is we who are of this house, if we hold fast and firm to the end our joyful and exultant confidence and sense of triumph in our hope.

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

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice,

8 h arden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion and their provocation and embitterment in the day of testing in the wilderness,

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

Where your fathers tried and tested and found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years.

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

And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them.

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

Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and indignation, They shall not enter into My rest.

12 T ake heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart, leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God.

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

But instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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

For we have become fellows with Christ (the Messiah) and share in all He has for us, if only we hold our first newborn confidence and original assured expectation firm and unshaken to the end.

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

Then while it is called Today, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

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

For who were they who heard and yet were rebellious and provoked ? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

17 B ut with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

And with whom was He irritated and provoked and grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dismembered bodies were strewn and left in the desert?

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

And to whom did He swear that they should not enter His rest, but to those who disobeyed ?

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

So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unwillingness to adhere to and trust in and rely on God.