| Berean Study Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. | 1Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, |
| 2He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. | 2who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. |
| 3For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. | 3For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. |
| 4And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. | 4(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) |
| 5Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later. | 5Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, |
| 6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast. | 6but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope. |
| 7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, | 7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, |
| 8do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, | 8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, |
| 9where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. | 9where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. |
| 10Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ | 10Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ |
| 11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’ ” | 11As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’” |
| 12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. | 12Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. |
| 13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. | 13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. |
| 14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first. | 14For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. |
| 15As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.” | 15As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” |
| 16For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? | 16For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? |
| 17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? | 17And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? |
| 18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? | 18And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? |
| 19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter. | 19So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. |
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