Hebrews 3
The author compares Jesus to Moses, showing that Jesus is worthy of greater glory—as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. Moses was faithful as a servant; Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. The chapter warns against hardening hearts as Israel did in the wilderness.
Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
Moses was faithful in all God's house — but Jesus deserves greater honor
But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.
Read Numbers 12 ›For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
'Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.' A worship psalm becomes a warning — every day is an invitation to respond to God's voice.
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
Read Psalms 95 ›Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
Read Psalms 95 ›do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
Read Psalms 95 ›where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
Where your ancestors tested and tried me
where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
Read Psalms 95 ›Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
Their hearts are always going astray; they have not known my ways
For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
Read Psalms 95 ›So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
Today, if you hear his voice — repeated warning in Hebrews
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
Read Psalms 95 ›For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Bodies fell in the wilderness — a warning for believers
Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
Read Numbers 14 ›And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
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