1 C hristian 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.

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

2 J esus was faithful in God’s house just as Moses was faithful in all of God’s house.

being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,

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

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

for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build God,

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

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 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.

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

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

8 d o 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.

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

9 Y our early fathers tempted Me and tried Me. They saw the work I did for forty years.

in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

10 F or 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.’

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

11 I was angry with them and said to Myself, ‘They will never go into My rest.’”

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

12 C hristian 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.

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

13 H elp 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.

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

for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

15 T he 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.”

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

16 W ho heard God’s voice and turned against Him? Did not all those who were led out of the country of Egypt by Moses?

for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

17 W ho 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?

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

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

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

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