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| 1 Therefore, holy brothers and companions in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession; | 1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. |
| 2 He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all God's household. | 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house. |
| 3 For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house. | 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. |
| 4 Now every house is built by someone, but the One who built everything is God. | 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. |
| 5 Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's household, as a testimony to what would be said [in the future]. | 5 Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future. |
| 6 But Christ was faithful as a Son over His household, whose household we are if we hold on to the courage and the confidence of our hope. | 6 But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast. |
| 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear His voice, | 7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, |
| 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the desert, | 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, |
| 9 where your fathers tested Me, tried [ Me ], and saw My works | 9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. |
| 10 for 40 years. Therefore I was provoked with this generation and said, "They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways." | 10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.' |
| 11 So I swore in My anger, "They will not enter My rest." | 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.' " |
| 12 Watch out, brothers, so that there won't be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God. | 12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. |
| 13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today , so that none of you is hardened by sin's deception. | 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. |
| 14 For we have become companions of the Messiah if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start. | 14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. |
| 15 As it is said: Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. | 15 As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion." |
| 16 For who heard and rebelled? Wasn't it really all who came out of Egypt under Moses? | 16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? |
| 17 And with whom was He "provoked for 40 years"? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? | 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? |
| 18 And to whom did He "swear that they would not enter His rest," if not those who disobeyed? | 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed ? |
| 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. | 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. |
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