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 honour than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honour 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 So Sen Mose
1Me nuanom akronkronfo a Onyankopɔn afrɛ mo, munnwen Yesu a yegye no to mu sɛ Ɔsomafo no ho. 2Na odii Onyankopɔn a oyii no sɛ ɔnyɛ saa adwuma yi no nokware sɛnea Mose nso dii nokware wɔ Onyankopɔn fi no. 3Wɔahu sɛ Yesu fata anuonyam sen Mose, sɛnea onipa a osi ofi nya anuonyam sen ofi no ankasa no. 4Ofi biara obi na osii. Na Onyankopɔn nso na wabɔ nneɛma nyinaa. 5Mose dii Onyankopɔn nokware sɛ ɔsomfo wɔ ne fi na ɔkaa nsɛm a Onyankopɔn bɛka daakye no nyinaa. 6Nanso Kristo de, odi nokware sɛ Ɔba a ɔhwɛ Onyankopɔn fi so. Sɛ yɛma yɛn bo yɛ duru na yɛwɔ gyidi wɔ yɛn anidaso mu a, na yɛyɛ ne fi no.3.6 Ofi no yɛ Onyankopɔn nnipa fifo. (Efe 2.19; 1 Pe 2.5)
7Enti Honhom Kronkron no ka se,
“Sɛ nnɛ mote Onyankopɔn nne a,
8monnyɛ asoɔden
te sɛ nea moyɛɛ bere a mosɔre tiaa Onyankopɔn no;
sɛnea moyɛɛ da a na mowɔ sare so a mosɔɔ no hwɛe no.
9Ɛhɔ na mo nenanom sɔɔ no hwɛe,
nanso wohuu nea meyɛɛ no mfe aduanan mu no.
10Ne saa nti me bo fuw saa nnipa no, na mekae se,
‘Wɔyɛ nnipa a wɔn koma aman afi me ho,
na wɔanhu mʼakwan.’
11Ɛno nti mekaa ntam wɔ mʼabufuw mu se,
‘Wɔrenhyɛn mʼahomegye mu da.’ ”
12Me nuanom, monhwɛ yiye na mo mu bi annya koma bɔne a ɔrennye Onyankopɔn nni a ɛbɛma watwe ne ho afi Onyankopɔn teasefo no ho. 13Na mmom sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a bɔne rennaadaa mo mu ebinom na wɔnyɛ asoɔden nti, da biara mommoaboa mo ho mo ho wɔ mmere dodow a asɛm “Nnɛ” a ɛwɔ Kyerɛwsɛm mu no fa yɛn ho no. 14Na sɛ yeso gyidi a yɛwɔ no mu dennen sɛnea yɛde fi mfiase no a na yɛwɔ kyɛfa wɔ Kristo mu. 15Kyerɛwsɛm no ka se,
“Sɛ nnɛ mote Onyankopɔn nne a,
monnyɛ asoɔden
te sɛ nea moyɛɛ bere a mosɔre tiaa Onyankopɔn no.”
16Ɛhefo na wɔtee Onyankopɔn nne na wɔsɔre tiaa no no? Nnipa a Mose dii wɔn anim fi Misraim no nyinaa. 17Ɛhefo na Onyankopɔn bo fuw wɔn mfirihyia aduanan no? Nnipa a wɔyɛɛ bɔne na wɔtetew hwe wuwuu wɔ sare so no. 18Bere a Onyankopɔn kaa ntam se, “Wɔremma me home mu da” no, na ɔreka akyerɛ ɛhefo? Na ɔreka akyerɛ wɔn a wɔyɛɛ asoɔden no. 19Afei, yehu sɛ wɔantumi ankɔ ɔhome no mu, efisɛ wɔannye anni.
