Hebrews 3
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- 1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,
- 2who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.
- 3For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honour than the house.
- 4For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
- 5Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
- 6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.“Christ” means “Anointed One”.
- 7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today if you will hear his voice, - 8don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
in the day of the trial in the wilderness, - 9where your fathers tested me and tried me,
and saw my deeds for forty years. - 10Therefore I was displeased with that generation,
and said, ‘They always err in their heart,
but they didn’t know my ways.’ - 11As I swore in my wrath,
‘They will not enter into my rest.’” - 12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
- 13but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
- 14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,
- 15while it is said,
“Today if you will hear his voice,
don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.” - 16For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
- 17With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- 18To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
- 19We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.