Hebrews 3

1 Therefore (we, His) brothers who have been set apart for the same life, (made to be) partakers of the heavenly calling, (should) carefully consider Christ Jesus, the apostle and high priest of the faith we profess (for He is God’s message to us; God Himself, ministering life to us);

2 Who was faithful (being the full expression of the faith) from Him that appointed Him (the High Priest over His entire house), as also Moses was faithful in all His house.

3 But this man (Christ Jesus) was considered fitting of greater honor than Moses, because (He built the house and) He who has built the house has more honor than the house.

4 For every house is built by some man (both those of greater and lesser honor); but He that built all things is God. 

5 And Moses was certainly faithful in all His house, as a servant, because (he gave) a testimony (pertaining to) those things which were to be spoken after (by God Himself in Christ);

6 But Christ (was faithful) as the Son over His own house (being fully persuaded of God’s faithfulness towards mankind, to provide Himself the lamb to sanctify us from death and also being fully persuaded of the Father’s faithfulness towards Him to raise Him from the dead); Whose house we are, if truly our hearts are apprehended (by Him) being confident and rejoicing in the sure hope (of His same life) that endures to the end.

7 Therefore as the Holy Ghost said (testifying about Christ), today if you will hear His voice (and rest in the work which God has done in Him),

8 Harden not your hearts as (your fathers did) when they rebelled (in unbelief), in the day of temptation (in drought) in the wilderness:

9 When your fathers tempted Me, to prove Myself (and My goodness toward them) and having seen My works for forty years (still would not rest in My goodness and strength to give them the promised land as their inheritance).

10 Therefore was I grieved with that generation, and said, they do always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways (because death has put a veil over their hearts).

11 So (being grieved) I swore in My wrath (to destroy death knowing) that they could not (ever) enter My rest (by the works of their own hands).

12 Listen diligently, (therefore) brothers (to hear the word which God has spoken in Christ), so that (after beholding the work that God has done to conquer death and raise you to His life) there would not remain in any of you an evil heart (which is one filled with the work you must do to rescue yourself from destruction, which comes) from unbelief, in departing from (trusting in) the living God (the only immortal, to serve you with His life).

13 But encourage (yourselves and) each other daily (fellowshipping around the work that God has done in Christ), while it is called today; so that none of you would have a heart hardened through the deceitfulness (that comes) from death (not partaking of and resting in His good work).

14 Because we are made partakers (of the life) of Christ, if indeed we (are fully persuaded of the work that God did) being apprehended by (the faith of Jesus Christ) the beginning (and end) of our assurance (of His same life), (the hope which) endures to the end;

15 As it is said, today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in (the day of) the rebellion (in the wilderness).

16 Because some, when they had heard (His voice and saw His works forty years), did rebel (in unbelief): however not all that came out of Egypt by Moses (rebelled).

17 But who was it that grieved Him forty years? was it not those who (after seeing all His mighty works for forty years continued) in unbelief, trusting in the strength of their own hands to preserve their lives (from destruction) whose bodies fell (dead) in the wilderness?

18 And to whom He did swear (in His passion for the life that only He could serve them with, being grieved) that they could not enter into His rest (through the strength of their own hands), but unto those who disobeyed (not resting in His good work)?