Hebrews 3

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;	1 That is why al you who are holy brothers and share the same heavenly cal should turn your minds toJesus, the apostle and the high priest of our profession of faith.
2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.	2 He was trustworthy to the one who appointed him, just like Moses, who remained trustworthy in all hishousehold;
3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.	3 but he deserves a greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house is more honoured than thehouse itself.
4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.	4 Every house is built by someone, of course; but God built everything that exists.
5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;	5 It is true that Moses was trustworthy in the household of God, as a servant is, acting as witness to thethings which were yet to be revealed,
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.	6 but Christ is trustworthy as a son is, over his household. And we are his household, as long as wefearlessly maintain the hope in which we glory.
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,	7 That is why, as the Holy Spirit says: If only you would listen to him today!
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:	8 Do not harden your hearts, as at the rebel ion, as at the time of testing in the desert,
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.	9 when your ancestors chal enged me, and put me to the test, and saw what I could do
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.	10 for forty years. That was why that generation sickened me and I said, 'Always fickle hearts, thatcannot grasp my ways!'
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)	11 And then in my anger I swore that they would never enter my place of rest.
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.	12 Take care, brothers, that none of you ever has a wicked heart, so unbelieving as to turn away from theliving God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.	13 Every day, as long as this today lasts, keep encouraging one another so that none of you is hardenedby the lure of sin,
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;	14 because we have been granted a share with Christ only if we keep the grasp of our first confidencefirm to the end.
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.	15 In this saying: If only you would listen to him today; do not harden your hearts, as at the Rebel ion,
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.	16 who was it who listened and then rebelled? Surely al those whom Moses led out of Egypt.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?	17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Surely with those who sinned and whose dead bodiesfel in the desert.
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?	18 To whom did he swear they would never enter his place of rest? Surely those who would not believe.
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.	19 So we see that it was their refusal to believe which prevented them from entering.