^3:1 Hence, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider^° Jesus Christ, the Apostle and High-Priest of our confession, ^3:2 being faithful to the one who made^* him such, as Moses also was in his whole house. {Num 12:7} ^3:3 For^* this one has been deemed worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who constructed it has more honor than the house. ^3:4 For^* every house is constructed by someone, but the one who constructed all things is God. ^3:5 And Moses indeed was faithful in his whole house as a bondservant ^*for a testimony of the things which will be spoken later; ^3:6 but Christ was faithful as a son, over his house, whose house we are, if indeed^* we hold-onto the boldness and the boasting of our hope steadfast till the end.

               ^3:7 Hence, as the Holy Spirit says, ‘Today if you^° hear his voice, ^3:8 do not harden your^° hearts, as in the rebellion, according-to the day of the testing in the wilderness, ^3:9 where your^° fathers tested me, they proved me, and then saw my works forty years. ^3:10 Hence I was displeased with that generation and said, They are habitually misled in their hearts, but they themselves did not know my ways. ^3:11 As I swore in my wrath, that they would never^* be entering into my rest.’ {Num 14:22, Psa 95:7-11; the ‘never*’ is actually ‘If’, located at the beginning of the Greek sentence. This is a Hebrew idiom: "IF they had repented, they will enter... but now..." The Jews knew what they had to obey, but refused over and over again to obey it.}

               ^3:12 Beware^° brethren, lest there will be an evil heart of unbelief in anyone of you^°, in the withdrawing away from the living God. ^3:13 But encourage^° yourselves each and every day, till what is called today, in-order-that not anyone out-of you^° may be hardened by the deception of sin. ^3:14 For^* we have become companions of the Christ, if indeed^* we hold-onto the beginning of our firmness steadfast till the end, ^3:15 while^* it was said, ‘If you^° hear his voice today, do not harden your^° hearts, as in the rebellion.’ {Num 14:29, Psa 95:7-11} ^3:16 For^* some heard, and rebelled, but not all the ones who came forth out-of Egypt through Moses. ^3:17 And with whom was he displeased for forty years? Was it not with the ones who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? {Num 14:35} ^3:18 Now to whom had he sworn that they will not be entering into his rest, except to the ones who were disobedient? ^3:19 And we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.