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Hebreerne 3
En Levende Bok
Hebreerne 3
En Levende Bok
Jesus er større enn Moses
3 Kjære søsken, dere tilhører Gud og har blitt innbudt til å leve i evig fellesskap med ham. Tenk på Jesus som vi bekjenner som vår øversteprest. Det var ham Gud sendte til jorden.
2 Tenk på hvordan Gud valgte ut Jesus til øversteprest, og hvor trofast Jesus var mot Gud. På samme måten var Moses trofast mot Gud i oppgaven med å lede Guds folk[a]. 3 Likevel var oppdraget Jesus har fått, mer ære verdt enn Moses sitt. Det er på samme måten som at en byggmester må bli mer æret enn det huset han har bygget. 4 Ja, hvert hus har en byggmester, og Gud er byggmesteren som står bak alt.
5 Visst nok var Moses trofast i å tjene alt Guds folk, men han ble likevel bare en tjener. Hans tjeneste var et forbilde på sannhetene Gud seinere ville avsløre. 6 Jesus Kristus[b] derimot er Guds sønn. Han er trofast i oppgaven med å regjere over Guds folk. Dette folket er vi en del av dersom vi uten frykt holder fast ved håpet om å bli frelst for evig.
Advarsel mot de troløse
7 Etter som Jesus Kristus nå er Herre over alle ting, sier Guds Hellige Ånd til oss:
”Om dere i dag hører stemmen hans, da må dere lytte.
8 Vær ikke harde og kalde som Israels folk var da de gjorde opprør
og satte meg på prøve i ørkenen.
9 Der testet de min tålmodighet og utfordret meg.
Det til tross for at i 40 års tid hadde de sett meg gjøre utallige mirakler.
10 Derfor ble jeg sint på den generasjonen som da levde, og sa:
’De handler alltid imot min vilje.
De nekter å følge den loven jeg har gitt.’
11 I mitt sinne sverget jeg derfor en ed og sa:
’De skal ikke få komme til hvileplassen der de kan få ro sammen med meg.’ ”[c]
12 Pass derfor på, kjære søsken, at dere ikke blir fylt av onde tanker. Dere må ikke være troløse og slutter å holde dere til Gud, han som gir liv. 13 I dag lyder kallet fra Kristus: Hold ut dag etter dag med å oppmuntre hverandre mens dere ennå har muligheten, slik at ingen blir fristet til å synde og bli harde og kalde. 14 Dersom vi helt til siste øyeblikk holder fast på den overbevisningen vi hadde da vi begynte å tro på Kristus, skal vi få del i alt godt sammen med ham.
15 Glem ikke advarselen:
”Dersom dere hører hans stemme i dag,
da må dere lytte til ham.
Vær ikke harde og kalde som Israels folk var da de gjorde opprør.”
16 Hvem var det som hørte Guds stemme og likevel gjorde opprør mot ham? Jo, det var de som sammen med Moses ble ledet ut av Egypt. 17 Og hvem var det som Gud seinere ble sint på i 40 år? Jo, det var de samme menneskene. De syndet mot Gud og måtte derfor dø i ørkenen. 18 Og hvem tenkte Gud på da han til slutt sverget eden sin og sa: ”De skal ikke få komme inn til hvileplassen der de kan få ro sammen med meg.” Jo, det var de samme menneskene. De nektet å tro på Gud. 19 Vi ser altså at det var på grunn av sin troløshet disse menneskene ikke fikk komme inn til hvileplassen Gud hadde forberedt for dem.
Footnotes
- 3:2 På gresk: Guds hus. Guds hus er Guds folk, det vil si alle som tilhører hans husholdning. Se Fjerde Mosebok 12:7. Ordet ”hus” kommer tilbake i det greske språk i v.3 6.
- 3:6 ”Kristus” betyr ”den salvede” på gresk. Blant Israels folk ble konger, prester og profeter salvet med olje før de begynte oppgaven sin. Gud hadde ved profetene lovet å sende en salvet konge som skulle herske over alle folk. Det hebraisk ordet ”Messias” betyr også ”den salvede”.
- 3:11 Se Salmenes bok 95:7-11.
Hebrews 3
New Testament for Everyone
Hebrews 3
New Testament for Everyone
Jesus and Moses
3 Well then, my brothers and sisters: you are God’s holy ones, and you share the call from heaven. So think carefully about Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession of faith. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 3 He deserves much more glory than Moses, you see, just as the one who builds a house deserves more glory than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but the one who builds all things is God. 5 And “Moses was faithful, as a servant, in all his house,” thereby bearing witness to the things that were yet to be spoken of; 6 but the Messiah is over God’s house as a son. What is that house? It is us—those of us who hold on tightly to the boldness and confidence of our hope.
Today’s the time to listen!
7 So listen to what the holy spirit says:
Today, if you hear his voice,
8 don’t harden hearts, as in the great bitterness,
like the day in the desert when they faced the test,
9 when your fathers put me to the test, and challenged me,
and saw my works 10 for forty years.
And so I was angry with that generation,
and said, “They are always straying in their hearts,
they do not know my ways.” 11 As I swore
in my anger, “They’ll never enter my rest.”
12 Take care, my dear family, that none of you should possess an evil and unbelieving heart, leading you to withdraw from the living God. 13 But encourage one another every day, as long as it’s called “Today,” so that none of you may become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Hold on tight!
14 We share the life of the Messiah, you see, only if we keep a firm, tight grip on our original confidence, right through to the end. 15 That’s what it means when it says, “Today, if you hear his voice, don’t make your hearts hard, as in the great bitterness.”
16 Who was it, after all, who heard and then became bitter? It was all those who went out of Egypt under Moses, wasn’t it? 17 And who was it that God was angry with for forty years? It was those who sinned, wasn’t it—those whose bodies fell in the desert? 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest? Wasn’t it the people who didn’t believe? 19 So we can see that it was their unbelief that prevented them from entering.
Hebrews 3
New International Version
Hebrews 3
New International Version
Jesus Greater Than Moses
3 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) 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.(E) 3 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. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.(G) 5 “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. 6 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
7 So, as the Holy Spirit says:(N)
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts(O)
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the wilderness,
9 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:
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
- Hebrews 3:5 Num. 12:7
- Hebrews 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11
- Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8
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