| New King James Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, | 1Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. |
| 2who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. | 2He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. |
| 3For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. | 3For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. |
| 4For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. | 4And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. |
| 5And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, | 5Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later. |
| 6but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. | 6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast. |
| 7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, | 7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, |
| 8Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, | 8do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, |
| 9Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. | 9where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. |
| 10Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’ | 10Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ |
| 11So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ” | 11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’ ” |
| 12Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; | 12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. |
| 13but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. | 13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. |
| 14For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, | 14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first. |
| 15while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” | 15As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.” |
| 16For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? | 16For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? |
| 17Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? | 17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? |
| 18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? | 18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? |
| 19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. | 19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter. |
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