New Testament · Hebrews

Hebrews 3

Yeshua Our Apostle and High Priest

1Therefore, holy^a ones brothers, fellow participant in the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession — Yeshua Messiah —^b 2who was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all His house.

3For He has been counted worthy of more glory^c than Moses, by as much as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of all things.

5And Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of the things that were to be spoken; 6but Messiah was faithful as a Son over His house — whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence^d and the boasting of our hope^e firm to the end.

Do Not Harden Your Hearts

(Psalm 95:1–11)

7Therefore, as the holy^f spirit^g says, "Today, if you hear His voice,

8do not harden your hearts^h as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9where your fathers tested and tried me, and saw my works for forty years.
10Therefore I was angry with that generation and said, 'They always go astray in their heartⁱ, but they have not known my ways.'
11So I swore in my anger^j, 'They shall not enter my rest.'"

The Peril of Unbelief

12See to it, brothers, that no one among you has a wicked heart of unbelief in falling away from the living God. 13But encourage one another every day, as long as it is called "today," so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

14For we have become fellow participant of Messiah, if indeed we hold our initial confidence firm to the end. 15As it is said, "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

16For some, when they had heard, rebelled; yet not all those who came out of Egypt through Moses. 17And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.