| NET Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess, | 1Therefore, holy brothers and companions in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession; |
| 2who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God's house. | 2He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all God's household. |
| 3For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself! | 3For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house. |
| 4For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. | 4Now every house is built by someone, but the One who built everything is God. |
| 5Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken. | 5Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future. |
| 6But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in. | 6But Christ was faithful as a Son over His household. And we are that household if we hold on to the courage and the confidence of our hope. |
| 7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! | 7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear His voice, |
| 8"Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness. | 8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, |
| 9"There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years. | 9where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works |
| 10"Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, 'Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.' | 10for 40 years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation and said, "They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways." |
| 11"As I swore in my anger, 'They will never enter my rest!'" | 11So I swore in My anger, "They will not enter My rest." |
| 12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God. | 12Watch out, brothers, so that there won't be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God. |
| 13But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called "Today," that none of you may become hardened by sin's deception. | 13But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin's deception. |
| 14For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end. | 14For we have become companions of the Messiah if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start. |
| 15As it says, "Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." | 15As it is said: Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. |
| 16For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses' leadership? | 16For who heard and rebelled? Wasn't it really all who came out of Egypt under Moses? |
| 17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? | 17And who was He provoked with for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? |
| 18And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? | 18And who did He swear to that they would not enter His rest, if not those who disobeyed? |
| 19So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief. | 19So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. |
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