Hebrews 3
3
Jesus Is Greater Than Moses
1So all of you, holy brothers, should think about Jesus. You were all called by God. God sent Jesus to us, and he is the high priest of our faith. 2And Jesus was faithful to God as Moses was. Moses did everything God wanted him to do in God’s family. 3A man who is the head of a family receives more honor than others in the family. It is the same with Jesus. Jesus should have more honor than Moses. 4Every family has its head, but God is the head of everything. 5Moses was faithful in God’s family as a servant. He told what God would say in the future. 6But Christ is faithful as a Son who is the head of God’s family. And we are God’s family if we hold on to our faith and are proud of the great hope we have.
We Must Continue to Follow God
7So it is as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today listen to what he says.
8Do not be stubborn as in the past
when you turned against God.
There you tested God in the desert.
9For 40 years in the desert your ancestors saw the things I did.
But they tested me and my patience.
10I was angry with them.
I said, ‘They are not loyal to me.
They have not understood my ways.’
11So I was angry and made a promise.
‘They will never enter my land of rest.’”# A place of rest God promised to give his people. Psalm 95:7-11
12So brothers, be careful that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart. This will stop you from following the living God. 13But encourage each other every day. Do this while it is “today.”# This word is taken from verse 7. It means that it is important to do these things now. Help each other so that none of you will become hardened because of sin and its tricks. 14We all share in Christ. This is true if we keep till the end the sure faith we had in the beginning. 15This is what the Scripture says:
“Today listen to what he says.
Do not be stubborn as in the past
when you turned against God.” Psalm 95:7-8
16Who heard God’s voice and was against him? It was all those people Moses led out of Egypt. 17And whom was God angry with for 40 years? He was angry with those who sinned, who died in the desert. 18And whom was God talking to when he promised that they would never enter and have his rest? He was talking to those who did not obey him. 19So we see that they were not allowed to enter and have God’s rest because they did not believe.
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Hebrews 3
3
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.
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