1Holy brothers and sisters, God chose you to be his people. So keep thinking about Jesus. We embrace him as our apostle and our high priest.2Moses was faithful in everything he did in the house of God. In the same way, Jesus was faithful to the God who appointed him.3The person who builds a house has greater honour than the house itself. In the same way, Jesus has been found worthy of greater honour than Moses.4Every house is built by someone. But God is the builder of everything.5‘Moses was faithful as one who serves in the house of God.’ He was a witness to what God would say in days to come. (Nu 12:7)6But Christ is faithful as the Son over the house of God. And we are his house if we hold tightly to what we are certain about. We must also hold tightly to the hope we boast in.
A warning against unbelief
7The Holy Spirit says, ‘Listen to his voice today.8If you hear it, don’t be stubborn. You were stubborn when you opposed me. You did that when you were tested in the desert.9There your people of long ago tested me. Yet for 40 years they saw what I did.10That is why I was angry with them. I said, “Their hearts are always going astray. They have not known my ways.”11So when I was angry, I made a promise. I said, “They will never enjoy the rest I planned for them.” ’ (Ps 95:7)12Brothers and sisters, make sure that none of you has a sinful heart. Do not let an unbelieving heart turn you away from the living God.13But build one another up every day. Do it as long as there is still time. Then none of you will become stubborn. You won’t be fooled by sin’s tricks.14We belong to Christ if we hold tightly to the faith we had at first. But we must hold it tightly until the end.15It has just been said, ‘Listen to his voice today. If you hear it, don’t be stubborn. You were stubborn when you opposed me.’ (Ps 95:7; Ps 95:8)16Who were those who heard and refused to obey? Weren’t they all the people Moses led out of Egypt?17Who was God angry with for 40 years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned? They died in the desert.18God promised that those people would never enjoy the rest he planned for them. God gave his word when he made that promise. Didn’t he make that promise to those who didn’t obey?19So we see that they weren’t able to enter. That’s because they didn’t believe.
Hebrews 3
English Standard Version
Jesus Greater Than Moses
1Therefore, holy brothers,[1] you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, (Joh 20:21; Ro 15:8; Eph 4:1; Php 3:14)2who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s[2] house. (Heb 3:5)3For 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 the builder of all things is God.) (Eph 2:10; Eph 3:9)5Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, (Ex 14:31; Nu 12:7; De 18:15; De 18:18; De 34:5; Jos 1:2; Jos 8:31; Ps 105:26; Heb 3:2; Re 15:3)6but 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.[3] (Ps 119:33; Ps 119:112; Mt 10:22; 1Co 3:16; 1Co 6:19; 2Co 6:16; Eph 2:21; 1Ti 3:15; Heb 1:2; Heb 3:14; Heb 6:11; 1Pe 2:5; Re 2:26)
A Rest for the People of God
7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, (Ps 95:7; Heb 3:15; Heb 4:7)8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,9where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. (Ac 7:36)10Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’11As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’” (Heb 4:3; Heb 4:5)12Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. (Mt 16:16)13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. (Isa 44:20; Ro 7:11; Eph 4:22; Heb 10:24)14For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. (1Co 15:2; Heb 3:6; Heb 10:23)15As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” (Heb 3:7)16For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? (Nu 14:2; Nu 14:24; Nu 14:30; De 1:34; De 1:36; De 1:38)17And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? (Nu 14:29; Jud 1:5)18And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? (De 1:34; Heb 4:2)19So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. (Ps 78:22; Ps 106:24; Heb 4:6)