| English Standard Version | Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, | 1Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession. |
| 2who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. | 2He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God's household. |
| 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. | 3For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house. |
| 4(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) | 4Now every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God. |
| 5Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, | 5Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future. |
| 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. | 6But Christ was faithful as a Son over his household. And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast. |
| 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 in the rebellion, on 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 put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. | 9where your fathers tested me, tried me, and saw my works |
| 10Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ | 10for forty years. Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation and said, "They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways." |
| 11As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’” | 11So I swore in my anger, "They will not enter my rest." |
| 12Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. | 12Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won't be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. |
| 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. | 13But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin's deception. |
| 14For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. | 14For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start. |
| 15As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as 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 those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? | 16For who heard and rebelled? Wasn't it all who came out of Egypt under Moses? |
| 17And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? | 17With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? |
| 18And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? | 18And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed? |
| 19So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. | 19So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. |
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