Hebrews 3
3
Jesus Is Greater Than Moses
1So, my brothers and sisters, those chosen by God to be his holy people, think about Jesus. He is the one we believe God sent to save us and to be our high priest. 2God made him our high priest, and he was faithful to God just as Moses was. He did everything God wanted him to do in God’s house. 3When someone builds a house, people will honor the builder more than the house. It is the same with Jesus. He should have more honor than Moses. 4Every house is built by someone, but God built everything. 5Moses was faithful as a servant in God’s whole house. He told people what God would say in the future. 6But Christ is faithful in ruling God’s house as the Son. And we are God’s house, if we remain confident of the great hope we are glad to say we have.
We Must Continue to Follow God
7So it is just as the Holy Spirit says:
“If you hear God’s voice today,
8don’t be stubborn as you were in the past,
when you turned against God.
That was the day you tested God in the desert.
9For 40 years in the desert, your people saw what I did.
But they tested me and my patience.
10So I was angry with them.
I said, ‘Their thoughts are always wrong.
They have never understood my ways.’
11So I was angry and made a promise:
‘They will never enter my place of rest.’” Psalm 95:7-11
12So, brothers and sisters, be careful that none of you has the evil thoughts that cause so much doubt that you stop following the living God. 13But encourage each other every day, while you still have something called “today.#3:13 today This word is taken from verse 7. It means it is important to do this now, while there is still opportunity.” Help each other so that none of you will be fooled by sin and become too hard to change. 14We have the honor of sharing in all that Christ has if we continue until the end to have the sure faith we had in the beginning. 15That’s why the Spirit said,
“If you hear God’s voice today,
don’t be stubborn as in the past
when you turned against God.” Psalm 95:7-8
16Who were those who heard God’s voice and turned against him? It was all the people Moses led out of Egypt. 17And who was God angry with for 40 years? He was angry with those who sinned. And their dead bodies were left in the desert. 18And which people was God talking to when he promised that they would never enter his place of 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
The Superiority of Jesus to Moses
1 Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2who was faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses also was in his household.#Some manuscripts have “in all his household” 3For this one is considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who builds it has greater honor than the house. 4For every house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God. 5And Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony to the things that would be spoken, 6but Christ was faithful#*The words “was faithful” are not in the Greek text, but are an understood repetition from the previous verse and v. 2 as a son over his house, whose house we are, if#Some manuscripts have “if indeed” we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of.
A Serious Warning Against Unbelief
7Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
in the day of testing in the wilderness,
9where your fathers tested me by trial
and saw my works 10for forty years.
Therefore I was angry with this generation,
and I said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
and they do not know my ways.’
11As I swore in my anger,
‘They will never enter#Literally “if they will enter” into my rest.’ ”#A quotation from Ps 95:7b-11
12Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, with the result that you fall away#*Here “with the result that” is supplied as a component of the infinitive (“fall away”) which is understood as result from the living God. 13But encourage one another day by day#Literally “by each day”, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you become hardened#Literally “not anyone of you be hardened” by the deception of sin. 14For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our commitment steadfast until the end, 15while it is said#Literally “in the saying”,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”#A quotation from Ps 95:7b-8
16For who, when they#*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal heard it, were disobedient? Surely it was not all who went out from Egypt through Moses? 17And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did he swear they would not enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 19And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.
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