Kristus är större än Mose

Därför, heliga bröder, ni som har fått del av en himmelsk kallelse, se på Jesus, den apostel och överstepräst som vi bekänner oss till. Han var betrodd av den som hade insatt honom, liksom Mose var betrodd i hela Guds hus. Men Jesus är värd mycket större ära än Mose, liksom byggmästaren är värd större heder än själva huset. Varje hus är byggt av någon, men Gud är den som har byggt allt. Mose var betrodd som tjänare i hela Guds hus för att vittna om det som senare skulle förkunnas. Men Kristus är betrodd som Son att råda över Guds hus, och hans hus är vi, när vi håller fast vid vår frimodighet och vårt hopp som vi berömmer oss av.

Varning för förhärdelse

Därför säger den helige Ande:

I dag, om ni hör hans röst,[a]
    så förhärda inte era hjärtan,
som när era fäder väckte min förbittring på frestelsens dag i öknen.
Där frestade de mig och satte mig på prov,
fastän de såg mina gärningar under fyrtio år.
10 Därför blev jag vred på detta släkte och sade:
Alltid far de vilse i sina hjärtan. De vill inte veta av mina vägar.
11 Då svor jag i min vrede: De skall aldrig komma in i min vila.

12 Bröder, se till att ingen av er har ett ont och trolöst hjärta, så att han avfaller från levande Gud. 13 Uppmuntra varandra i stället varje dag, så länge det heter i dag, så att ingen av er förhärdas genom syndens makt att bedra. 14 Ty vi är Kristi vänner, om vi ända till slutet stadigt håller fast vid vår första tillförsikt. 15 Det heter: I dag, om ni hör hans röst, så förhärda inte era hjärtan som när era fäder väckte min förbittring.[b] 16 Vilka var det då som väckte förbittring, fastän de hade hört hans röst? Var det inte alla de som Mose hade fört ut ur Egypten? 17 Vilka var han vred på under fyrtio år? Var det inte de som syndade och blev liggande döda i öknen? 18 Och vilka gällde eden han svor, att de aldrig skulle komma in i hans vila, om inte dem som var olydiga? 19 Vi ser alltså att det var för sin otros skull som de inte kunde komma in.

Footnotes

  1. Hebreerbrevet 3:7 Ps 95:8f.
  2. Hebreerbrevet 3:15 Ps 95:8.

Jesus Greater Than Moses

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,(A) who share in the heavenly calling,(B) fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge(C) as our apostle and high priest.(D) He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.(E) Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,(F) just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.(G) “Moses was faithful as a servant(H) in all God’s house,”[a](I) bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son(J) over God’s house. And we are his house,(K) if indeed we hold firmly(L) to our confidence and the hope(M) in which we glory.

Warning Against Unbelief

So, as the Holy Spirit says:(N)

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts(O)
as you did in the rebellion,
    during the time of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.(P)
10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
    and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,(Q)
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ (R)[b](S)

12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.(T) 13 But encourage one another daily,(U) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.(V) 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold(W) our original conviction firmly to the very end.(X) 15 As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”[c](Y)

16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?(Z) 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?(AA) 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest(AB) if not to those who disobeyed?(AC) 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.(AD)

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 3:5 Num. 12:7
  2. Hebrews 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11
  3. Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8

The Son Was Faithful

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as (A)Moses also was faithful in all His house. For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as (B)He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but (C)He who built all things is God. (D)And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as (E)a servant, (F)for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, but Christ as (G)a Son over His own house, (H)whose house we are (I)if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope [a]firm to the end.

Be Faithful(J)

Therefore, as (K)the Holy Spirit says:

(L)“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but [b]exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:

(M)“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers

16 (N)For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, (O)whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And (P)to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of (Q)unbelief.

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 3:6 NU omits firm to the end
  2. Hebrews 3:13 encourage