Hebrews 3
Worldwide English (New Testament)
3 My brothers, you are holy. You are also called to go to heaven. Take time to think carefully about Jesus. God sent him. He is the high priest we believe in.
2 He did what God sent him to do, just as Moses did in God's house.
3 But Jesus is much greater than Moses - as the one who builds a house is greater than the house itself.
4 Every house is built by someone, but God is the one who builds all things.
5 Moses did what he was told to do as a servant in all of God's house. He showed things that God would say later.
6 But Jesus Christ was true as a Son over God's house. We are God's house if we keep on believing and telling others what we hope to have.
7 So as the Holy Spirit says, `Today, when you hear me speak, do not make your hearts hard.
8 That is what happened when the people tested me in the desert and I became angry.
9 There your fathers tested me and tried me. And they saw what I did for forty years.
10 So I was very angry with the people of that time. I said, "Their minds are always dark. They have not known my ways."
11 I said when I was angry, "They will never go into my resting place." '
12 My brothers, take care that not one of you has a heart that does not believe. Such a heart will take you away from the living God.
13 But talk to each other every day while `Today' lasts, so that wrong ways will not fool any one of you and your hearts become hard.
14 We have our part with Christ if we go on to the end and believe in him as we did at first.
15 God is still saying now, `Today, when you hear me speak, do not make your hearts hard. That is what happened when the people turned against me.'
16 Who were the people who heard him and yet made him very angry? It was all the people whom Moses led out of the country of Egypt.
17 With whom was God angry for forty years? He was angry with the people who had done wrong. And they died in the desert.
18 Who were the people God said would never go into his resting place? They were the people who would not listen to him.
19 So then, we see that they could not go in because they did not believe him.
Hebrews 3
King James Version
3 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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