The Epistle to the Hebrews

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- Chapter 3 -

Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus.

He is faithful to the One who made him, just as Moses also was, with his entire house.

For this Jesus was considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, so much so that the house which he has built holds a greater honor than the former one.

For every house is built by someone, but God is the One who has created all things.

And certainly Moses was faithful, with his entire house, like any servant, as a testimony to those things that would soon be said.

Yet truly, Christ is like a Son in his own house. We are that house, if we firmly retain the faithfulness and the glory of hope, even unto the end.

Do Not Harden Your Hearts

(Psalm 95:1–11)

Because of this, it is just as the Holy Spirit says: “If today you hear his voice,

harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, the very day of temptation, in the desert,

where your fathers tested me, even though they had seen and examined my works for forty years.

For this reason, I was enraged against this generation, and I said: They always wander astray in heart. For they have not known my ways.

So it is as I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!”

The Peril of Unbelief

Be cautious, brothers, lest perhaps there may be, in any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, turning aside from the living God.

Instead, exhort one another every day, while it is still called ‘today,’ so that none of you may become hardened through the falseness of sin.

For we have been made participants in Christ. This is only so, if we firmly retain the beginning of his substance, even unto the end.

For it has been said: “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, in the same manner as in the former provocation.”

For some of those listening did provoke him. But not all of these had set forth from Egypt through Moses.

So against whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not those who had sinned, whose dead bodies lay prostrate in the desert?

But to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, except to those who were incredulous?

And so, we perceive that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.

For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.

For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

but Christ

(a)

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.

Do Not Harden Your Hearts

(Psalm 95:1–11)

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”(b)

The Peril of Unbelief

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

but 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.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”(c)

For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

Footnotes

(a)3:6 “Christ” means “Anointed One”.

(b)3:11 ℘ Psalms 95:7-11