希伯来书 3
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
耶稣超越摩西
3 因此，同蒙天召的圣洁的弟兄姊妹，你们应当仔细思想那位我们公认为特使和大祭司的耶稣。 2 祂向委任祂的上帝尽忠，就好像摩西向上帝的全家尽忠一样。 3 然而祂却比摩西配得更大的荣耀，因为建造房子的人当然比房子更尊贵。 4 所有的房子都有建造者，但建造万物的是上帝。 5 摩西以仆人的身份向上帝的全家尽忠，为将来要宣告的事做见证。 6 但基督是以儿子的身份忠心治理上帝的家。我们若坚强勇敢，持定引以为荣的盼望，我们就是祂的家了。
不可存刚硬的心
7 因此，正如圣灵说：
“你们今天若听见祂的声音，
8 不可心里顽固，
像从前在旷野试探祂、悖逆祂一样。
9 当时，你们的祖先试我、探我，
观看我的作为达四十年之久。
10 所以，我向那世代的人发怒，
说，‘他们总是执迷不悟，
不认识我的道路。’
11 我就在愤怒中起誓说，
‘他们绝不可进入我的安息。’”
12 弟兄姊妹，要谨慎，免得你们当中有人心存恶念，不肯相信，背弃了永活的上帝。 13 趁着还有今日，要天天互相劝勉，免得有人被罪迷惑，心里变得刚硬。 14 如果我们将起初的信念坚持到底，便在基督里有份了。
15 圣经上说：
“你们今日若听见祂的声音，
不可像从前那样硬着心悖逆祂。”
16 听见祂的声音却又悖逆祂的是谁呢？不就是摩西从埃及领出来的那些人吗？ 17 四十年之久惹上帝发怒的是谁呢？不就是那些犯罪作恶并倒毙在旷野的人吗？ 18 上帝起誓不准谁进入祂的安息呢？不就是那些不肯信从的人吗？ 19 可见，他们不能进入上帝的安息是因为不信的缘故。
Hebrews 3
The Message
The Centerpiece of All We Believe
3 1-6 So, my dear Christian friends, companions in following this call to the heights, take a good hard look at Jesus. He’s the centerpiece of everything we believe, faithful in everything God gave him to do. Moses was also faithful, but Jesus gets far more honor. A builder is more valuable than a building any day. Every house has a builder, but the Builder behind them all is God. Moses did a good job in God’s house, but it was all servant work, getting things ready for what was to come. Christ as Son is in charge of the house.
6-11 Now, if we can only keep a firm grip on this bold confidence, we’re the house! That’s why the Holy Spirit says,
Today, please listen;
don’t turn a deaf ear as in “the bitter uprising,”
that time of wilderness testing!
Even though they watched me at work for forty years,
your ancestors refused to let me do it my way;
over and over they tried my patience.
And I was provoked, oh, so provoked!
I said, “They’ll never keep their minds on God;
they refuse to walk down my road.”
Exasperated, I vowed,
“They’ll never get where they’re going,
never be able to sit down and rest.”
12-14 So watch your step, friends. Make sure there’s no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God. For as long as God’s still calling it Today, keep each other on your toes so sin doesn’t slow down your reflexes. If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we’re in this with Christ for the long haul.
These words keep ringing in our ears:
Today, please listen;
don’t turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising.
15-19 For who were the people who turned a deaf ear? Weren’t they the very ones Moses led out of Egypt? And who was God provoked with for forty years? Wasn’t it those who turned a deaf ear and ended up corpses in the wilderness? And when he swore that they’d never get where they were going, wasn’t he talking to the ones who turned a deaf ear? They never got there because they never listened, never believed.
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