Hebrews 3

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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.	1 Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus.
2 He was trustworthy to the one who appointed him, just like Moses, who remained trustworthy in all hishousehold;	2 He is faithful to the One who made him, just as Moses also was, with his entire house.
3 but he deserves a greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house is more honoured than thehouse itself.	3 For this Jesus was considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, so much so that the house which he has built holds a greater honor than the former one.
4 Every house is built by someone, of course; but God built everything that exists.	4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the One who has created all things.
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,	5 And certainly Moses was faithful, with his entire house, like any servant, as a testimony to those things that would soon be said.
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.	6 Yet truly, Christ is like a Son in his own house. We are that house, if we firmly retain the faithfulness and the glory of hope, even unto the end.
7 That is why, as the Holy Spirit says: If only you would listen to him today!	7 Because of this, it is just as the Holy Spirit says: “If today you hear his voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts, as at the rebel ion, as at the time of testing in the desert,	8 harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, the very day of temptation, in the desert,
9 when your ancestors chal enged me, and put me to the test, and saw what I could do	9 where your fathers tested me, even though they had seen and examined my works for forty years.
10 for forty years. That was why that generation sickened me and I said, 'Always fickle hearts, thatcannot grasp my ways!'	10 For this reason, I was enraged against this generation, and I said: They always wander astray in heart. For they have not known my ways.
11 And then in my anger I swore that they would never enter my place of rest.	11 So it is as I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!”
12 Take care, brothers, that none of you ever has a wicked heart, so unbelieving as to turn away from theliving God.	12 Be cautious, brothers, lest perhaps there may be, in any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, turning aside from the living God.
13 Every day, as long as this today lasts, keep encouraging one another so that none of you is hardenedby the lure of sin,	13 Instead, exhort one another every day, while it is still called ‘today,’ so that none of you may become hardened through the falseness of sin.
14 because we have been granted a share with Christ only if we keep the grasp of our first confidencefirm to the end.	14 For we have been made participants in Christ. This is only so, if we firmly retain the beginning of his substance, even unto the end.
15 In this saying: If only you would listen to him today; do not harden your hearts, as at the Rebel ion,	15 For it has been said: “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, in the same manner as in the former provocation.”
16 who was it who listened and then rebelled? Surely al those whom Moses led out of Egypt.	16 For some of those listening did provoke him. But not all of these had set forth from Egypt through Moses.
17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Surely with those who sinned and whose dead bodiesfel in the desert.	17 So against whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not those who had sinned, whose dead bodies lay prostrate in the desert?
18 To whom did he swear they would never enter his place of rest? Surely those who would not believe.	18 But to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, except to those who were incredulous?
19 So we see that it was their refusal to believe which prevented them from entering.	19 And so, we perceive that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.