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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Hebrews 3
3
Moses a Servant, Christ a Son
1Therefore, brothers and sisters,#3.1 Gk brothers holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2was 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.” 3Yet 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(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5Now 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. 6Christ, 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 confidence and the pride that belong to hope.
Warning against Unbelief
7Therefore, 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,
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,#3.12 Gk brothers 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. 15As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? 17But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient? 19So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
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