Hebrews 3

Berean Standard Bible

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Hebrews 3 compares Jesus and Moses, stating that Jesus is worthy of greater glory as the Son over God's house, whereas Moses served faithfully within it as a servant. The text references the historical event of the Israelites whom Moses led out of Egypt, who rebelled, tested God, and sinned in the wilderness during a forty-year period. Because of their disobedience and unbelief, God swore in His anger that that generation would never enter His rest. The chapter concludes by warning the addressees against developing a wicked heart of unbelief and emphasizes the necessity of holding firmly to their initial confidence to the end.

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¹Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. ²He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. ³For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. ⁴And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. ⁵Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later. ⁶But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast. ⁷Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, ⁸do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, ⁹where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. ¹⁰Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ ¹¹So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” ¹²See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. ¹³But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. ¹⁴We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first. ¹⁵As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.” ¹⁶For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? ¹⁷And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? ¹⁹So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

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