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

¹Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, [even] Jesus;

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

²who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

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

³For 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.

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

⁴For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.

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

⁵And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken;

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.

⁶but 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.

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

⁷Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,

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

⁸Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

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

⁹Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me,] And saw my works forty years.

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

¹⁰Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;

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

¹¹As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

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

¹²Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:

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

¹³but 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:

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

¹⁴for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:

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

¹⁵while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

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

¹⁶For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?

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

¹⁷And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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

¹⁸And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient?

¹⁹Basi, twaona kwamba hawakuingia huko kwa sababu hawakuamini.

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