1 Daarom, heilige broeders, deelgenote van die hemelse roeping, let op die Apostel en Hoëpriester van ons belydenis, Christus Jesus,
2 wat getrou was aan Hom wat Hom aangestel het, net soos Moses ook in sy hele huis.
3 Want Hy is meer heerlikheid waardig geag as Moses, namate hy wat die huis gebou het, meer eer het as die huis;
4 want elke huis word deur iemand gebou, maar Hy wat alle dinge gebou het, is God.
5 En Moses was wel getrou in sy hele huis as 'n dienaar, om te getuig van wat nog gespreek sou word,
6 maar Christus as Seun oor sy huis. En ons is sy huis as ons net die vrymoedigheid en die roem van die hoop tot die einde toe onwrikbaar vashou.
7 Daarom, soos die Heilige Gees spreek: Vandag as julle sy stem hoor,
8 verhard julle harte nie soos in die verbittering, in die dag van die versoeking in die woestyn nie,
9 waar julle vaders My versoek, My beproef het en my werke veertig jaar lank gesien het.
10 Daarom het Ek vertoornd geword op daardie geslag en gesê: Altyd dwaal hulle met die hart. Maar hulle het my weë nie leer ken nie,
11 sodat Ek in my toorn gesweer het: Hulle sal in my rus nie ingaan nie.
12 Sorg daarvoor, broeders, dat daar nie miskien in een van julle 'n bose en ongelowige hart is deurdat hy van die lewende God afvallig word nie.
13 Maar vermaan mekaar elke dag so lank as dit vandag genoem word, sodat niemand van julle deur die verleiding van die sonde verhard word nie.
14 Want ons het deelgenote van Christus geword, as ons net die begin van ons vertroue tot die einde toe onwrikbaar vashou;
15 omdat daar gesê word: Vandag as julle sy stem hoor, verhard julle harte nie soos in die verbittering nie.
16 Wie was dit dan wat gehoor het en Hom verbitter het? Was dit nie almal wat onder leiding van Moses uit Egipte gegaan het nie?
17 En op wie was Hy veertig jaar lank vertoornd? Was dit nie op die wat gesondig het, wie se lyke in die woestyn geval het nie?
18 En aan wie het Hy gesweer dat hulle in sy rus nie sal ingaan nie, behalwe aan die ongehoorsames?
19 En ons sien dat hulle deur ongeloof nie kon ingaan nie.
1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus; 2 who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house. 3 For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the house. 4 For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God. 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken; 6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end. 7 Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith,
To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation,
Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tried me by proving me,
And saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was displeased with this generation,
And said, They do always err in their heart:
But they did not know my ways;
11 As I sware in my wrath,
They shall not enter into my rest.
12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: 13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin: 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end: 15 while it is said,
To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses? 17 And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient? 19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.