Jesus Greater Than Moses
1Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. 2He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 3Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5“Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,”3:5 Num. 12:7 bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
Warning Against Unbelief
7So, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the wilderness,
9where your ancestors tested and tried me,
though for forty years they saw what I did.
10That is why I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
11So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”3:11 Psalm 95:7-11
12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. 15As has just been said:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.”3:15 Psalm 95:7,8
16Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? 18And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
Yesu ndi Wamkulu Kuposa Mose
1Nʼchifukwa chake abale oyera mtima, amenenso munayitanidwa ndi kumwamba, lingalirani za Yesu amene ndi Mtumwi ndi Mkulu wa ansembe wa chikhulupiriro chimene timavomereza. 2Iye anali wokhulupirika kwa Mulungu amene anamupatsa udindowo, monga momwe Mose anali wokhulupirika mʼnyumba yonse ya Mulungu. 3Yesu anapezeka woyenera kulandira ulemu waukulu kuposa Mose, monga momwemonso womanga nyumba amalandira ulemu waukulu kuposa nyumbayo. 4Pakuti nyumba iliyonse imamangidwa ndi munthu wina, koma amene anapanga zonse ndi Mulungu. 5Mose anali wokhulupirika monga mtumiki mʼnyumba yonse ya Mulungu, kuchitira umboni zimene zidzayankhulidwe mʼtsogolo. 6Koma Khristu ndi wokhulupirika monga mwana pa nyumba ya Mulungu. Ndipo ndife nyumba yake ngati tipitirire kulimbika mtima ndi kunyadira zomwe tikuyembekerazo.
Chenjezo pa Kusakhulupirira
7Tsono monga Mzimu Woyera akuti,
“Lero mukamva mawu ake,
8musawumitse mitima yanu
ngati munachitira pamene munawukira,
pa nthawi yoyesedwa mʼchipululu.
9Pamene makolo anu anandiputa ndi kundiyesa,
ndipo kwa zaka makumi anayi anaona zimene Ine ndinachita.
10Nʼchifukwa chake ndinawukwiyira mʼbadowo,
ndipo Ine ndinati, ‘Nthawi zonse mitima yawo imasochera,
ndipo iwo sadziwa njira zanga.’
11Kotero Ine ndinalumbira nditakwiya kuti,
‘Iwo sadzalowa mu mpumulo wanga.’ ”
12Abale samalani, kuti pasapezeke wina aliyense mwa inu wokhala ndi mtima woyipa ndi wosakhulupirira, womulekanitsa ndi Mulungu wamoyo. 13Koma muzilimbikitsana tsiku ndi tsiku, ikanalipo nthawi imene imatchedwa kuti “Lero” kuti aliyense wa inu mtima wake usawumitsidwe ndi chinyengo cha tchimo. 14Pakuti timakhala anzake a Khristu, ngati tigwiritsitsa mpaka potsiriza chitsimikizo chimene tinali nacho pachiyambi. 15Monga kunanenedwa kuti,
“Lero ngati mumva mawu ake,
musawumitse mitima yanu
ngati momwe munachitira pamene munawukira.”
16Nanga amene anamva ndi kuwukira anali ndani? Kodi si onse amene Mose anawatulutsa mu Igupto? 17Nanga amene Mulungu anawakwiyira zaka makumi anayi anali ndani? Kodi si anthu amene anachimwa, amene mitembo yawo inatsala mʼchipululu muja? 18Nanga Mulungu ankanena za ndani kuti sadzalowa mu mpumulo wake? Pajatu ankanena za anthu amene sanamvere aja. 19Tsono ife tikuona kuti sanalowe chifukwa cha kusakhulupirika kwawo.
