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Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly vocation, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

Who was faithful to Him who has appointed Him (just as Moses was) in all His house.

For this Man is counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as the One who has built the house has more honor than the house.

For every house is built by someone. But the One Who has built all things is God.

Now Moses was truly faithful in all His house as a servant, for a witness of the things yet to be spoken.

But, Christ is as the Son over His own house, Whose house we are if we hold onto the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope to the end.

Therefore, as the Holy Ghost says, “Today, if you shall hear His voice,

“do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion on the day of temptation in the wilderness,

“where your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works for forty years.

10 “Therefore, I was grieved with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, nor have they known My ways.’

11 “Therefore, I swear in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter into My rest.’”

12 Pay attention, brothers, lest at any time there be in any of you an evil and unfaithful heart, departing from the living God.

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today”, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14 For we have been made partakers of Christ, if we keep sure to the end that beginning which upholds us,

15 so long as it is said, “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16 For some, when they heard, provoked Him to anger (though not all who came out of Egypt with Moses).

17 But with whom was He displeased for forty years? Was He not displeased with those who sinned; whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, but to those who disobeyed?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Jesus Greater Than Moses

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,(A) who share in the heavenly calling,(B) fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge(C) as our apostle and high priest.(D) He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.(E) Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,(F) just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.(G) “Moses was faithful as a servant(H) in all God’s house,”[a](I) bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son(J) over God’s house. And we are his house,(K) if indeed we hold firmly(L) to our confidence and the hope(M) in which we glory.

Warning Against Unbelief

So, as the Holy Spirit says:(N)

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts(O)
as you did in the rebellion,
    during the time of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.(P)
10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
    and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,(Q)
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ (R)[b](S)

12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.(T) 13 But encourage one another daily,(U) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.(V) 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold(W) our original conviction firmly to the very end.(X) 15 As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”[c](Y)

16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?(Z) 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?(AA) 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest(AB) if not to those who disobeyed?(AC) 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.(AD)

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 3:5 Num. 12:7
  2. Hebrews 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11
  3. Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8