Hebrews 3
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- 1So then, my holy brothers and sisters — you who share in this heavenly calling — fix your thoughts on Christ Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest we confess.
- 2He was faithful to God who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all of God's house.
- 3But Jesus deserves far greater glory than Moses, just as the person who builds a house receives more honor than the house itself.
- 4Every house is built by someone, but God is the one who built everything.
- 5Moses was indeed faithful as a servant in all of God's house, as a testimony to the things that would be spoken later.
- 6But Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. And we are his house — if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we celebrate, all the way to the end.
- 7That's why the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,
- 8Do not harden your hearts as during the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
- 9where your fathers tested me, tried me, and saw my works for forty years.
- 10That is why I was grieved with that generation and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.'
- 11So I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'
- 12Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
- 13Instead, encourage each other every day—while it is still called 'today'—so that none of you becomes hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
- 14We are made partakers of Christ if we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.
- 15As it says: "Today, if you hear his voice, don't harden your hearts the way they did during the rebellion."
- 16For some, when they had heard, did rebel; however, not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.
- 17But with whom was He grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
- 18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not believe?
- 19So we see that they couldn't enter because of their unbelief.