3:1  SO THEN, brethren, consecrated {and} set apart for God, who share in the heavenly calling, [thoughtfully and attentively] consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest Whom we confessed [as ours when we embraced the Christian faith].

3:2  [See how] faithful He was to Him Who appointed Him [Apostle and High Priest], as Moses was also faithful in the whole house [of God].

3:3  Yet Jesus has been considered worthy of much greater honor {and} glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house [itself].

3:4  For [of course] every house is built {and} furnished by someone, but the Builder of all things {and} the Furnisher [of the entire equipment of all things] is God.

3:5  And Moses certainly was faithful in the administration of all God's house [but it was only] as a ministering servant. [In his entire ministry he was but] a testimony to the things which were to be spoken [the revelations to be given afterward in Christ].

3:6  But Christ (the Messiah) was faithful over His [own Father's] house as a Son [and Master of it]. And it is we who are [now members] of this house, if we hold {fast and firm to the end} our joyful {and} exultant confidence and sense of triumph in our hope [in Christ].

3:7  Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice,

3:8  Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] {and} their provocation {and} embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness,

3:9  Where your fathers tried [My patience] {and} tested [My forbearance] and found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years.

3:10  And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err {and} are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived {or} recognized My ways {and} become progressively better {and} more experimentally {and} intimately acquainted with them.

3:11  Accordingly, I swore in My wrath {and} indignation, They shall not enter into My rest.

3:12  [Therefore beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away {and} desert {or} stand aloof from the living God.

3:13  But instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [by the fraudulence, the stratagem, the trickery which the delusive glamor of his sin may play on him].

3:14  For we have become fellows with Christ (the Messiah) {and} share in all He has for us, if only we hold our first newborn confidence {and} original assured expectation [in virtue of which we are believers] firm {and} unshaken to the end.

3:15  Then while it is [still] called Today, if you would hear His voice {and} when you hear it, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion [in the desert, when the people provoked and irritated and embittered God against them].

3:16  For who were they who heard {and} yet were rebellious {and} provoked [Him]? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

3:17  And with whom was He irritated {and} provoked {and} grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dismembered bodies were strewn {and} left in the desert?

3:18  And to whom did He swear that they should not enter His rest, but to those who disobeyed [who had not listened to His word and who refused to be compliant or be persuaded]?

3:19  So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest], because of their unwillingness to adhere to {and} trust in {and} rely on God [unbelief had shut them out].