People’s Open Bible
Hebrews 3
Fix Eyes on Faithful Jesus
Open in the reader →1Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
2who was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also was in all his house.
3For this one has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the one who built the house has greater honor than the house.
4For every house is built by someone, but God is the one who built all things.
5And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of the things that would be spoken later,
6But the Messiah was faithful as a Son over his house, whose house we are, if we hold fast our boldness and the boast of our hope.
7Therefore, just 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 fathers tested me by trial and saw my works,
10For forty years, therefore, I was provoked with this generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts, but they have not known my ways.’
11as I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’
12Watch out, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in turning 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 sharers in the Messiah, if indeed we hold the beginning of our assurance firm to the end.
15while it is being said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16For who, when they heard, rebelled? Was it 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, if not to those who disobeyed?
19And we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.
Composed from original Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Ge’ez manuscripts, rendered in multiple passes to stay as close to the originals as possible. About this project