MODERN LITERAL VERSION

3:1 Hence, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus Christ, the Apostle and High-Priest of our confession;
3:2 who was faithful to him who made* him such, as Moses also was in all his house.
3:3 For* he has been deemed worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who constructed the house 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 all his house as a bondservant, *for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;
3:6 but Christ was faithful as a son, over his house; whose house we are, if indeed* we hold-onto our 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, in the day of the testing in the wilderness,
3:9 where your* fathers tested me, proving me , and saw my works forty years.
3:10 Hence I was displeased with this generation and said, They are habitually misled in their heart s, but they did not know my ways.
3:11 As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest.' {Num. 14:22, Ps. 95:7-11}
3:12 Beware brethren, lest there will be an evil heart of unbelief in anyone of you*, in withdrawing from the living God.
3:13 But encourage one another daily, up to what is called today; in order that none out of you* may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
3:14 For* we have become companions of Christ, if indeed* we hold-onto the beginning of our firmness steadfast till the end;
3:15 while it is said, ‘If you* hear his voice today, do not harden your* hearts, as in the rebellion.' {Num. 14:29}
3:16 For* some who had heard it rebelled. But was it not all those who came out of Egypt through Moses?
3:17 And with whom was he displeased with for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
3:18 Now to whom did he swear that they might not enter into his rest, except to those who were disobedient?
3:19 And we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.