1 T herefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, 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 who appointed him, as also was Moses 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 he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor 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 built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

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

5 M oses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

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 is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to 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 T herefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

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

8 d on’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial 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 here your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

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

10 T herefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know 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 a s I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

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

12 B eware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away 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 day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by 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 have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to 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, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

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 who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn’t all those who 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 W ith whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies 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 T o whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

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

19 W e see that they were not able to 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.