1 That is why all you who are holy brothers and share the same heavenly call should turn your minds to Jesus, the apostle and the high priest of our profession of faith.
2 He was trustworthy to the one who appointed him, just like Moses, who remained trustworthy in all his household;
3 but he deserves a greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house is more honoured than the house itself.
4 Every house is built by someone, of course; but God built everything that exists.
5 It is true that Moses was trustworthy in the household of God, as a servant is, acting as witness to the things which were yet to be revealed,
6 but Christ is trustworthy as a son is, over his household. And we are his household, as long as we fearlessly maintain the hope in which we glory.
7 That is why, as the Holy Spirit says: If only you would listen to him today!
8 Do not harden your hearts, as at the rebellion, as at the time of testing in the desert,
9 when your ancestors challenged me, and put me to the test, and saw what I could do
10 for forty years. That was why that generation sickened me and I said, 'Always fickle hearts, that cannot grasp my ways!'
11 And then in my anger I swore that they would never enter my place of rest.
12 Take care, brothers, that none of you ever has a wicked heart, so unbelieving as to turn away from the living God.
13 Every day, as long as this today lasts, keep encouraging one another so that none of you is hardened by the lure of sin,
14 because we have been granted a share with Christ only if we keep the grasp of our first confidence firm to the end.
15 In this saying: If only you would listen to him today; do not harden your hearts, as at the Rebellion,
16 who was it who listened and then rebelled? Surely all those whom Moses led out of Egypt.
17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Surely with those who sinned and whose dead bodies fell in the desert.
18 To whom did he swear they would never enter his place of rest? Surely those who would not believe.
19 So we see that it was their refusal to believe which prevented them from entering.
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Hebrews 3 deals with the contrast between God's faithfulness and the infidelity of the people of Israel during the desert journey. The author urges readers to maintain their trust in God and persevere in faith. In addition, the chapter highlights Jesus' superiority over Moses and the importance of listening to the voice of God.
Psalm 95:7-8: "For he is our God, and we people of his pasture and sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear your voice, do not harden your hearts." This verse is quoted in Hebrews 3:7-8 to emphasize the importance of listening to the voice of God and does not harden the heart, as the people of Israel did during the desert journey.
Numbers 14:22: "Certainly all these men who saw my glory and my signs I did in Egypt and the desert, and yet tried to me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice." This verse is quoted in Hebrews 3:16-19 as an example of the infidelity of the people of Israel in the desert and as a warning to readers not to follow the same path.
Deuteronomy 1:35-36: "None of them, from this wicked generation, will see the good land that I swore to give your parents except Caleb, son of Jephonh; He will see it, and the land that stepped on I will give him and his children, because he persevered to follow the Lord. " This verse is quoted in Hebrews 3:12 as an example of perseverance in faith in order to encourage readers not to give up on their journeys.
Psalm 106:24-25: "They despised the pleasant earth, they did not believe in their Word, but they murmured in their tents, and did not hear the voice of the Lord." This verse is quoted in Hebrews 3:18-19 to emphasize the consequence of disbelief and lack of obedience to the voice of God.
Jeremiah 31:31-34: "But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord, I shall put my law inside, and write it into His heart; and I will be your God and They will be my people. And they shall not teach each other to his neighbor, nor each to his brother, saying, Know to the Lord; for all will know me, from the smallest to the greatest of them, says the Lord; for I will forgive them to Your iniquity, and I will never remember your sins again. " This verse is quoted in Hebrews 3:7-8 to highlight the superiority of the new pact made in Jesus, which allows believers to have a direct relationship with God and have their transgressions forgiven.
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