Berean Study Bible | New International 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 and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. |
2He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. | 2He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses 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. | 3Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. |
4And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. | 4For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. |
5Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later. | 5"Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house," bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. |
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 as the Son over God's house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory. |
7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, | 7So, 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 you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, |
9where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. | 9where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. |
10Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ | 10That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.' |
11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’ ” | 11So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" |
12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. | 12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns 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 encourage one another daily, as long as it is called "Today," so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. |
14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first. | 14We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. |
15As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.” | 15As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion." |
16For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? | 16Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? |
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 angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished 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 God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? |
19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter. | 19So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. |
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