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

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession;

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

He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house.

3 Y et 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.

For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house.

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

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

5 A nd 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.

Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;

6 B ut 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.

but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house— whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

7 T herefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice,

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “ Today if you hear His voice,

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

Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness,

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

Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, And saw My works for forty years.

10 A nd 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.

“ Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways ’;

11 A ccordingly, I swore in My wrath and indignation, They shall not enter into My rest.

As I swore in My wrath, ‘ They shall not enter My rest.’” The Peril of Unbelief

12 b rethren, 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.

Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

13 B ut 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.

But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

14 F or 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.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,

15 T hen 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.

while it is said, “ Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”

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

For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

17 A nd 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?

And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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

And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?

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

So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.