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| 1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus; | 1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. |
| 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house. | 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house. |
| 3 For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he who built the house 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 For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God. | 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. |
| 5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, | 5 Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future. |
| 6 but Christ as a Son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. | 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, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice, | 7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, |
| 8 Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, | 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 by proving me, And saw my works for forty years. | 9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. |
| 10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, 'They always err in their heart, But they didn't know 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 As I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'" | 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.' " |
| 12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there will be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away 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 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. | 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 partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end: | 14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. |
| 15 while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation." | 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, when they heard, did provoke? No, didn't all those who came out of Egypt by Moses? | 16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? |
| 17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? | 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? |
| 18 To whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient? | 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed ? |
| 19 We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief. | 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. |
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