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 was Moses in all his house. 3For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor 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; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. 7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice, 8don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, 9where your fathers tested me by proving 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 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 fast 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? No, didn’t all those who came out of Egypt 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 were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
World English Bible (public domain)
“"For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end."”
Hebrews 3:14
Summary
Hebrews chapter 3 emphasizes the superiority of Jesus over Moses, urging believers to recognize Christ as both the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. The writer highlights Jesus' faithfulness in comparison to Moses' faithfulness as a servant in God's house, while Jesus is considered faithful as a Son over God’s house. The chapter then warns against hardening one’s heart, using the Israelites' rebellion in the wilderness as a cautionary tale. It calls readers to encourage one another daily to avoid the deceitfulness of sin and to remain steadfast in faith. The theological significance includes the call to perseverance, the importance of faith in Christ, and the warning against unbelief, which leads to missing God’s rest.
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