Hebrews 3

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: 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 He is faithful to the One who made him, just as Moses also was, with his entire house.	2 He was trustworthy to the one who appointed him, just like Moses, who remained trustworthy in all hishousehold;
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.	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 built by someone, but God is the One who has created all things.	4 Every house is built by someone, of course; but God built everything that exists.
5 And certainly Moses was faithful, with his entire house, like any servant, as a testimony to those things that would soon be said.	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 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.	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 Because of this, it is just as the Holy Spirit says: “If today you 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, the very day of temptation, in the desert,	8 Do not harden your hearts, as at the rebel ion, as at the time of testing in the desert,
9 where your fathers tested me, even though they had seen and examined my works for forty years.	9 when your ancestors chal enged me, and put me to the test, and saw what I could do
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.	10 for forty years. That was why that generation sickened me and I said, 'Always fickle hearts, thatcannot grasp my ways!'
11 So it is as I swore 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 Be cautious, brothers, lest perhaps there may be, in any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, turning aside 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 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.	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 have been made participants in Christ. This is only so, if we firmly retain the beginning of his substance, even 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 For it has been said: “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, in the same manner as in the former 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 of those listening did provoke him. But not all of these had set forth from Egypt through Moses.	16 who was it who listened and then rebelled? Surely al those whom Moses led out of Egypt.
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?	17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Surely with those who sinned and whose dead bodiesfel in the desert.
18 But to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, except to those who were incredulous?	18 To whom did he swear they would never enter his place of rest? Surely those who would not believe.
19 And so, we perceive that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.	19 So we see that it was their refusal to believe which prevented them from entering.