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.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

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

being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses 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 of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,

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 builded by some one, and He who the all things did build 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.

and Moses indeed stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,

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.

and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

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

Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear --

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

ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation 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.

in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works 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.

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

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

so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest --!')

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.

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling 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 exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the 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 partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

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.

in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

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 certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through 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?

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses 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 shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --

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.

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