Hebrews 3

Moses a Servant, Christ a Son

1 # Rom 15.8; Phil 3.14; Heb 2.11; 10.21 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2who was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also “was faithful in all#3.2 Other ancient authorities lack all God’s#3.2 Gk his house.” 3#2 Cor 3.7–11Yet Jesus#3.3 Gk this one is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4#Eph 2.10; Heb 1.2(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5#Ex 14.31; Num 12.7; Deut 18.18, 19Now Moses was faithful in all God’s#3.5 Gk his house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later. 6#Rom 5.2; 1 Cor 3.16; Col 1.23; Heb 1.2Christ, however, was faithful over God’s#3.6 Gk his house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm#3.6 Other ancient authorities add to the end the boldness and the pride inspired by hope.

Warning against Unbelief

7 # Ps 95.7; Heb 9.8 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today, if you hear his voice,

8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,

as on the day of testing in the wilderness,

9where your ancestors put me to the test,#3.9 Other ancient authorities read tempted me, tested me

though they had seen my works 10for forty years.

Therefore I was angry with that generation,

and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts,

and they have not known my ways.’

11As in my anger I swore,

‘They will not enter my rest.’ ”

12Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end. 15#v 7As it is said,

“Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16 # Num 14.2 Now who were they who heard and rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? 17#Num 14.29; Ps 106.26And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18#Num 14.23; Heb 4.6And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient? 19#Jn 3.36So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

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