Hebrews 3

Moses a Servant, Christ a Son

³Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,^{* 2}who was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also “was faithful in all^u God’s^v house.” ³Yet Jesus^w is worthy of more glory than Moses, just 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.)^{* 5}Now Moses was faithful in all God’s^x house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later.^{* 6}Christ, however, was faithful over God’s^y house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm^z the boldness and the pride inspired by hope.^*

Warning against Unbelief

⁷Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today, if you hear his voice,^*

⁸do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,

as on the day of testing in the wilderness,

⁹where your ancestors put me to the test,^a

though they had seen my works ¹⁰for forty years.

Therefore I was angry with that generation,

and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts,

and they have not known my ways.’

¹¹As in my anger I swore,

‘They will not enter my rest.’ ”

¹²Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. ¹³But exhort 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 partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end. ¹⁵As it is said,

“Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”^*

¹⁶Now who were they who heard and rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?^{* 17}And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?^{* 18}And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?^{* 19}So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.^*