Epistle to the Hebrews, Chapter 3
Hebrews 3 RSV - Revised Standard Version Chapter 3 of Hebrews—Revised Standard Version (RSV)
- ¶ Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly call, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
- He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in[a] God’s house.
- Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house.
- (For every house is built by some one, but the builder of all things is God.)
- Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,
- but Christ was faithful over God’s[b] house as a son. And we are his house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope.[c]
- ¶ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
¶ “Today, when you hear his voice, - do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness, - where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years. - Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts;
they have not known my ways.’ - As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’” - ¶ Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
- But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
- For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,
- while it is said,
¶ “Today, when you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” - ¶ Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
- And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- And to whom did he swear that they should never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
- So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Other ancient authorities insert all
- ^ Greek his
- ^ Other ancient authorities insert firm to the end
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