Bible Gateway passage: Hebrews 3 - New International Version (2024)

Jesus Greater Than Moses

3Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,^(A) who share in the heavenly calling,^(B) fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge^(C) as our apostle and high priest.^{(D) 2}He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.^{(E) 3}Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,^(F) just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. ⁴For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.^{(G) 5}“Moses was faithful as a servant^(H) in all God’s house,”^[a](I) bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. ⁶But Christ is faithful as the Son^(J) over God’s house. And we are his house,^(K) if indeed we hold firmly^(L) to our confidence and the hope^(M) in which we glory.

Warning Against Unbelief

⁷So, as the Holy Spirit says:^(N)

“Today, if you hear his voice,
⁸do not harden your hearts^(O)
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the wilderness,
⁹where your ancestors tested and tried me,
though for forty years they saw what I did.^(P)
10That is why I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
¹¹So I declared on oath in my anger,^(Q)
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ^(R)”^[b](S)

¹²See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.^{(T) 13}But encourage one another daily,^(U) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.^{(V) 14}We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold^(W) our original conviction firmly to the very end.^{(X) 15}As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.”^[c](Y)

¹⁶Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?^{(Z) 17}And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^{(AA) 18}And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest^(AB) if not to those who disobeyed?^{(AC) 19}So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.^(AD)

Footnotes

1. Hebrews 3:5 Num. 12:7
2. Hebrews 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11
3. Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8

Cross references

1. Hebrews 3:1 : Heb 2:11
2. Hebrews 3:1 : S Ro 8:28
3. Hebrews 3:1 : 1Ti 6:12; Heb 4:14; 10:23; 2Co 9:13
4. Hebrews 3:1 : S Heb 2:17
5. Hebrews 3:2 : ver 5; Nu 12:7
6. Hebrews 3:3 : Dt 34:12
7. Hebrews 3:4 : Ge 1:1
8. Hebrews 3:5 : Ex 14:31
9. Hebrews 3:5 : ver 2; Nu 12:7
10. Hebrews 3:6 : S Heb 1:2
11. Hebrews 3:6 : S 1Co 3:16; 1Ti 3:15
12. Hebrews 3:6 : ver 14; S Ro 11:22; Heb 4:14
13. Hebrews 3:6 : Ro 5:2; Heb 6:11, 18, 19; 7:19; 11:1
14. Hebrews 3:7 : Ac 28:25; Heb 9:8; 10:15
15. Hebrews 3:8 : ver 15; Heb 4:7
16. Hebrews 3:9 : Nu 14:33; Dt 1:3; Ac 7:36
17. Hebrews 3:11 : Dt 1:34, 35
18. Hebrews 3:11 : Heb 4:3, 5
19. Hebrews 3:11 : Ps 95:7-11
20. Hebrews 3:12 : S Mt 16:16
21. Hebrews 3:13 : Heb 10:24, 25
22. Hebrews 3:13 : Jer 17:9; Eph 4:22
23. Hebrews 3:14 : ver 6
24. Hebrews 3:14 : S Eph 3:12
25. Hebrews 3:15 : ver 7, 8; Ps 95:7, 8; Heb 4:7
26. Hebrews 3:16 : Nu 14:2
27. Hebrews 3:17 : Nu 14:29; Ps 106:26; 1Co 10:5
28. Hebrews 3:18 : Nu 14:20-23; Dt 1:34, 35
29. Hebrews 3:18 : Heb 4:6
30. Hebrews 3:19 : Ps 78:22; 106:24; Jn 3:36