Hebrews 3

Jesus Greater Than Moses

1 Therefore, holy brothers, 1 you who share in r a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, s the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, t just as Moses also was faithful in all God's 2 house. 3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses - as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but u the builder of all things is God.) 5 v Now Moses was faithful in all God's house w as a servant, x to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God's house as y a son. And z we are his house if indeed we a hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope. 3

A Rest for the People of God

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
b "Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for c forty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, 'They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.'
11 d As I swore in my wrath,
'They shall not enter my rest.'"

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from e the living God. 13 But f exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by g the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, h if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

15 As it is said,
b "Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

16 For i who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not j all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, k whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that l they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that m they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

  1. Cross References
    Ephesians 4:1
    I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called.
    Philippians 3:14
    I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
  2. Cross References
    John 20:21
    Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.
    Romans 15:8
    For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs.
  3. Cross References
    Hebrews 3:5
    Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later.
  4. Cross References
    Ephesians 2:10
    For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
    Ephesians 3:9
    And to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.
  5. Cross References
    Hebrews 3:2
    Who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house.
    Numbers 12:7
    Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 14:31
    Israel saw the great power that the Lord used a...
    Deuteronomy 34:5
    So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in ...
    Joshua 1:2
    Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, ...
    Joshua 8:31
    Just as Moses the servant of the Lord had comma...
    Psalms 105:26
    He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he ...
    Revelation 15:3
    And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of...
  7. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 18:15
    The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers - it is to him you shall listen -
    Deuteronomy 18:18 - 19
    I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
  8. Cross References
    Hebrews 1:2
    But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
  9. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 3:16
    Do you not know that you are God's temple and t...
    1 Corinthians 6:19
    Or do you not know that your body is a temple o...
    2 Corinthians 6:16
    What agreement has the temple of God with idols...
    Ephesians 2:21
    In whom the whole structure, being joined toget...
    1 Timothy 3:15
    If I delay, you may know how one ought to behav...
    1 Peter 2:5
    You yourselves like living stones are being bui...
  10. Cross References
    Hebrews 3:14
    For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed ...
    Hebrews 6:11
    And we desire each one of you to show the same ...
    Psalms 119:33
    Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes; and...
    Psalms 119:112
    I incline my heart to perform your statutes for...
    Matthew 10:22
    And you will be hated by all for my name's sake...
    Revelation 2:26
    The one who conquers and who keeps my works unt...
  11. Cross References
    Hebrews 3:15
    As it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
    Hebrews 4:7
    Again he appoints a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.
    Psalms 95:7 - 11
    For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice.
  12. Cross References
    Psalms 95:7 - 11
    For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice.
  13. Cross References
    Acts 7:36
    This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
  14. Cross References
    Hebrews 4:3
    For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
    Hebrews 4:5
    And again in this passage he said, "They shall not enter my rest.
  15. Cross References
    Matthew 16:16
    Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
  16. Cross References
    Hebrews 10:24 - 25
    And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works.
  17. Cross References
    Isaiah 44:20
    He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?
    Romans 7:11
    For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
    Ephesians 4:22
    To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.
  18. Cross References
    Hebrews 3:6
    But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
    Hebrews 10:23
    Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
    1 Corinthians 15:2
    And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you - unless you believed in vain.
  19. Cross References
    Hebrews 3:7
    Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice.
  20. Cross References
    Psalms 95:7 - 8
    For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice.
  21. Cross References
    Numbers 14:2
    And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
    Deuteronomy 1:34 - 35
    And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore.
  22. Cross References
    Numbers 14:24
    But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
    Numbers 14:30
    Not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
    Deuteronomy 1:36
    Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!
    Deuteronomy 1:38
    Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
  23. Cross References
    Numbers 14:29
    Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me.
    Jude 1:5
    Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
  24. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:34 - 35
    And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore.
    Hebrews 4:2
    For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
  25. Cross References
    Hebrews 4:6
    Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience.
    Psalms 78:22
    Because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.
    Psalms 106:24
    Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.
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