1 Wherefore, holy siblings, partners of a calling from Heaven, contemplate the apostle and chief priest of the confession of ours, Jesus,
2 being faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses was in all things for the house of His,
3 for this One is deemed worthy of greater glory next to Moses, just as so much greater honour than the house has the preparer of it,
4 for every house is prepared by someone, and the preparer of all things is God,
5 and while Moses was faithful in all the house of His, as an attendant, unto a testimony of the things going to be spoken,
6 yet Christ was faithful as Son over the house of His; Whose house we are if, that is, we would hold firmly the boldness and the boast of the hope.
7 Due to this, just as the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, says, "Today, if you should hear the voice of His,
8 do not harden the hearts of yours as in the provocation during the time of the testing in the wilderness,
9 where the parents of yours tested Me in an examination, and they saw the works of Mine
10 forty years! Due to this I was wroth with the generation, that one, and I said, 'Always they wander in the heart, so they have not known the ways of Mine.'
11 So I swore in the wrath of Mine, 'If* they will enter into the rest of Mine!"
12 Watch, siblings! lest ever there will be in someone among you an evil heart of unfaith, in the defection from the living God.
13 Instead, encourage yourselves on every day, as long as it is called the present day, so that anyone of you not be hardened by fraud of the sin.
14 For we become partners of the Christ, if, that is, we would firmly hold secure the primacy* of the foundation until completion,
15 in which it is to be said, "Today, if you should hear the voice of His, do not harden the hearts of yours as in the provocation."
16 For some, having heard, provoked. But not all they who went out of Egypt through Moses.
17 So, with some He was wroth forty years. No, with them who sinned, the corpses of whom fell in the wilderness.
18 So, about whom did He swear not to be brought into the rest of His, if not them who disobeyed?
19 And we see that they could not enter due to unfaith.
Notes
v. 11 The Greek text is consistent with how this oath is recorded in Psalm 95:11 in Hebrew and Greek. For explanation, see Thayer's Greek Lexicon, "εἰ" section 5 (link).
v. 14 Or, "the beginning".