Hebrews 3 — AAB

Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest

3Verse 1Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.^{Verse 2}He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.^{+Verse 3}For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.^{Verse 4}And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.^{Verse 5}Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,⁺testifying to what would be spoken later.^{Verse 6}But 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.

Do Not Harden Your Hearts

^{Verse 7}Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear His voice,^{Verse 8}do not harden your hearts,as you did in the rebellion,in the day of testing in the wilderness,^{Verse 9}where your fathers tested and tried Me,and for forty years saw My works.^{Verse 10}Therefore I was angry with that generation,and I said,‘Their hearts are always going astray,and they have not known My ways.’^{Verse 11}So I swore on oath in My anger,‘They shall never enter My rest.’”⁺

The Peril of Unbelief

^{Verse 12}See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.^{Verse 13}But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.^{Verse 14}We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.^{Verse 15}As it has been said:
“Today, if you hear His voice,do not harden your hearts,as you did in the rebellion.”^{+Verse 16}For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?^{Verse 17}And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?^{Verse 18}And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?^{Verse 19}So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.