New Testament · Letters

Hebrews chapter 3

So, my brothers and sisters and share in a heavenly , fix your attention on Jesus, the and of what we declare to be true.He was to the one who appointed him, just like Moses was faithful in all of God’s .But Jesus has been considered worthy of greater than Moses, just as the builder of a house gets more honor than the house itself.Every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God.Now Moses was faithful as a in all of God’s household, serving as a to the things that would be spoken later.But was faithful as a son over God’s household. And we are that household -- if we hold on to our and the we are proud of.So, as says: “Today, if you hear his voice,don’t your hearts like they did during the , on the day of testing in the ,where your ancestors tested me and challenged me, and saw what I did for forty years.That’s why I was with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always . They have never understood my ways.’So I made a solemn oath in my anger: ‘They will never enter my .’”Watch out, brothers and sisters -- make sure none of you develops a , heart that turns away from the .Instead, each other every single day -- as long as it’s still called “today” -- so that none of you gets hardened by .We have become with -- if we hold firmly to the we had at the beginning, all the way to the end.As it says: “Today, if you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts like they did during the rebellion.”Now who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it everyone Moses led out of Egypt?And who was God angry with for forty years? Wasn’t it the ones who -- whose bodies dropped in the wilderness?And who did he swear would never enter his rest? Wasn’t it those who him?So we can see that they weren’t able to enter because of their .