3:1 | | For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith; |
3:2 | | Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house. |
3:3 | | And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house. |
3:4 | | For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God. |
3:5 | | And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later; |
3:6 | | But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end. |
3:7 | | And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears, |
3:8 | | Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land, |
3:9 | | When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years. |
3:10 | | So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways; |
3:11 | | And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest. |
3:12 | | My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God: |
3:13 | | But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin: |
3:14 | | For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ; |
3:15 | | As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry. |
3:16 | | Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses? |
3:17 | | And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land? |
3:18 | | And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders? |
3:19 | | So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief. |