¹Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

¹Ndugu zangu watu wa Mungu ambao mmeitwa na Mungu, fikirini juu ya Yesu ambaye Mungu alimtuma awe Kuhani Mkuu wa imani tunayoiungama.

²being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,

²Yeye alikuwa mwaminifu kwa Mungu aliyemteua kufanya kazi yake kama vile Mose alivyokuwa mwaminifu katika nyumba yote ya Mungu.

³for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,

³Mjenzi wa nyumba hupata heshima zaidi kuliko hiyo nyumba yenyewe. Hali kadhalika naye Yesu anastahili heshima kubwa zaidi kuliko Mose.

⁴for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build [is] God,

⁴Kila nyumba hujengwa na mjenzi fulani--na Mungu ndiye mjenzi wa vitu vyote.

⁵and Moses indeed [was] stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,

⁵Mose alikuwa mwaminifu katika nyumba yote ya Bwana kama mtumishi, na alinena juu ya mambo ambayo Mungu atayasema hapo baadaye.

⁶and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

⁶Lakini Kristo ni mwaminifu kama Mwana mwenye mamlaka juu ya nyumba ya Mungu. Sisi ni nyumba yake kama tukizingatia uhodari wetu na uthabiti wetu katika kile tunachotumainia.

⁷Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear —

⁷Kwa hiyo, basi, kama asemavyo Roho Mtakatifu: "Kama mkisikia sauti ya Mungu leo,

⁸ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

⁸msiifanye mioyo yenu kuwa migumu kama wazee wenu walivyokuwa wakati walipomwasi Mungu; kama walivyokuwa siku ile kule jangwani,

⁹in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

⁹Huko wazee wenu walinijaribu na kunichunguza, asema Bwana, ingawa walikuwa wameyaona matendo yangu kwa miaka arobaini.

¹⁰wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

¹⁰Kwa sababu hiyo niliwakasirikia watu hao nikasema, Fikira za watu hawa zimepotoka, hawajapata kamwe kuzijua njia zangu.

¹¹so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest — !`)

¹¹Basi, nilikasirika, nikaapa: Hawataingia huko ambako ningewapa pumziko."

¹²See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

¹²Basi ndugu, jihadharini asije akawako yeyote miongoni mwenu aliye na moyo mbaya hivyo na asiyeamini hata kujitenga na Mungu aliye hai.

¹³but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

¹³Maadamu hiyo "Leo" inayosemwa katika Maandiko bado inatuhusu sisi, mnapaswa kusaidiana daima, ili mtu yeyote miongoni mwenu asidanganywe na dhambi na kuwa mkaidi.

¹⁴for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

¹⁴Maana sisi tunashirikiana na Kristo ikiwa tutazingatia kwa uthabiti tumaini tulilokuwa nalo mwanzoni.

¹⁵in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,`

¹⁵Maandiko yasema hivi: "Kama mkisikia sauti ya Mungu leo, msiifanye mioyo yenu kuwa migumu kama wazee wenu walivyokuwa wakati walipomwasi Mungu."

¹⁶for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

¹⁶Ni akina nani basi, waliosikia sauti ya Mungu wakamwasi? Ni wale wote walioongozwa na Mose kutoka Misri.

¹⁷but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

¹⁷Mungu aliwakasirikia akina nani kwa miaka arobaini? Aliwakasirikia wale waliotenda dhambi, maiti zao zikatapakaa kule jangwani.

¹⁸and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? —

¹⁸Mungu alipoapa: "Hawataingia huko ambako ningewapa pumziko," alikuwa anawasema akina nani? Alikuwa anasema juu ya hao walioasi.

¹⁹and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

¹⁹Basi, twaona kwamba hawakuingia huko kwa sababu hawakuamini.