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

Christian brothers, you have been chosen and set apart by God. So let us think about Jesus. He is the One God sent and He is the Religious Leader of our Christian faith.

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

Jesus was faithful in God’s house just as Moses was faithful in all of God’s 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.

The man who builds a house gets more honor than the house. That is why Jesus gets more honor than Moses.

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

Every house is built by someone. And God is the One Who has built everything.

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;

Moses was a faithful servant owned by God in God’s house. He spoke of the things that would be told about later on.

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 was faithful as a Son Who is Head of God’s house. We are of God’s house if we keep our trust in the Lord until the end. This is our hope.

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

The Holy Spirit says, “If you hear His voice today,

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

do not let your hearts become hard as your early fathers did when they turned against Me. It was at that time in the desert when they put Me to the test.

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

Your early fathers tempted Me and tried Me. They saw the work I did 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.

For this reason, I was angry with the people of this day. And I said to them, ‘They always think wrong thoughts. They have never understood what I have tried to do for them.’

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

I was angry with them and said to Myself, ‘They will never go 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.

Christian brothers, be careful that not one of you has a heart so bad that it will not believe and will turn away 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.

Help each other. Speak day after day to each other while it is still today so your heart will not become hard by being fooled by sin.

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

For we belong to Christ if we keep on trusting Him to the end just as we trusted Him at first.

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

The Holy Writings say, “If you hear His voice today, do not let your hearts become hard as your early fathers did when they turned against Me.”

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

Who heard God’s voice and turned against Him? Did not all those who were led out of the country of Egypt 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?

Who made God angry for forty years? Was it not those people who had sinned in the desert? Was it not those who died and were buried there?

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

Who did He say could never go into His rest? Was it not those who did not obey Him?

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

So we can see that they were not able to go into His rest because they did not put their trust in Him.