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    Hebrews · 19 verses

    Hebrews 3

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    For forty years, a people saw God's works in the wilderness, while the verdict said their hearts were always going astray and had not known God's ways.

    The builder and the housevv. 1–6

    Jesus is set beside Moses, but not as a rival servant in the same corridor. Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant; Christ is faithful as the Son over it. Then comes the splendid architectural turn: the house may be honoured, but the builder has greater honour, and God is the builder of everything.

    The wilderness questionsvv. 7–19

    The warning arrives as a remembered voice from the wilderness: seeing God's works for forty years did not prevent hearts from going astray. The chapter then tightens the screws with three questions whose answers are already waiting inside them: the rebels were the people Moses led out of Egypt; the sinners were those whose bodies fell in the wilderness; the disobedient were the ones barred from rest. The final explanation is almost brisk in its certainty: unbelief kept them out.

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    1. Heb 3:1Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

    2. Heb 3:2He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.

    3. Heb 3:3For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

    4. Heb 3:4And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

    5. Heb 3:5Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.

    6. Heb 3:6But 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.

    7. Heb 3:7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,

    8. Heb 3:8do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

    9. Heb 3:9where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

    10. Heb 3:10Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

    11. Heb 3:11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

    12. Heb 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

    13. Heb 3:13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

    14. Heb 3:14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.

    15. Heb 3:15As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”

    16. Heb 3:16For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

    17. Heb 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18. Heb 3:18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

    19. Heb 3:19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

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    • 7Psalms 95:7–11For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
    • 7Hebrews 3:15As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
    • 7Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
    • 7Revelation 3:20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
    • 7Hebrews 4:7God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
    • 7John 10:27My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
    • 7Psalms 81:13If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
    • 72 Corinthians 6:1–2As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
    • 7Matthew 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
    • 12Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
    • 131 Thessalonians 5:11Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
    • 13Hebrews 10:24–25And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.
    • 72 Peter 1:21For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
    • 72 Samuel 23:2The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; His word was on my tongue.
    • 7Proverbs 27:1Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
    • 1Philippians 3:14I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.

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