Hebrews 3
International Standard Version
The Messiah is Superior to Moses
3 Therefore, holy brothers, partners in a heavenly calling, keep your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God’s[a] household, 3 because he is worthy of greater glory than Moses in the same way that the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 After all, every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 Moses was faithful in all God’s[b] household as a servant who was to testify to what would be said later, 6 but the Messiah[c] was faithful[d] as the Son in charge of God’s[e] household, and we are his household if we hold on to our courage and the hope in which we rejoice.[f]
A Rest for the People of God
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts
as they did when they provoked me
during the time of testing in the wilderness.
9 There your ancestors tested me,
even though they had seen my actions 10 for 40 years.
That is why I was indignant with that generation and said,
‘They are always going astray in their hearts,
and they have not known my ways.’
11 So in my anger I swore a solemn oath
that they would never enter my rest.”[g]
12 See to it, my brothers, that no evil, unbelieving heart is found in any of you, as shown by your turning away from the living God. 13 Instead, continue to 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, 14 because we are the Messiah’s[h] partners only if we hold on to our original confidence to the end.[i] 15 As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as they did when they provoked me.”[j]
16 Now who heard him and provoked him? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led[k] by Moses? 17 And with whom was he angry for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies fell dead in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would never enter his rest? It was to those who disobeyed him, was it not? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of their unbelief.
Footnotes
- Hebrews 3:2 Lit. his
- Hebrews 3:5 Lit. his
- Hebrews 3:6 Or Christ
- Hebrews 3:6 The Gk. lacks was faithful
- Hebrews 3:6 Lit. his
- Hebrews 3:6 Lit. the boast of our hope
- Hebrews 3:11 Cf. Ps 95:7-11
- Hebrews 3:14 Or Christ’s
- Hebrews 3:14 Other mss. lack to the end
- Hebrews 3:15 Cf. Ps 95:7-8
- Hebrews 3:16 The Gk. lacks led
Hebrews 3
Worldwide English (New Testament)
3 My brothers, you are holy. You are also called to go to heaven. Take time to think carefully about Jesus. God sent him. He is the high priest we believe in.
2 He did what God sent him to do, just as Moses did in God's house.
3 But Jesus is much greater than Moses - as the one who builds a house is greater than the house itself.
4 Every house is built by someone, but God is the one who builds all things.
5 Moses did what he was told to do as a servant in all of God's house. He showed things that God would say later.
6 But Jesus Christ was true as a Son over God's house. We are God's house if we keep on believing and telling others what we hope to have.
7 So as the Holy Spirit says, `Today, when you hear me speak, do not make your hearts hard.
8 That is what happened when the people tested me in the desert and I became angry.
9 There your fathers tested me and tried me. And they saw what I did for forty years.
10 So I was very angry with the people of that time. I said, "Their minds are always dark. They have not known my ways."
11 I said when I was angry, "They will never go into my resting place." '
12 My brothers, take care that not one of you has a heart that does not believe. Such a heart will take you away from the living God.
13 But talk to each other every day while `Today' lasts, so that wrong ways will not fool any one of you and your hearts become hard.
14 We have our part with Christ if we go on to the end and believe in him as we did at first.
15 God is still saying now, `Today, when you hear me speak, do not make your hearts hard. That is what happened when the people turned against me.'
16 Who were the people who heard him and yet made him very angry? It was all the people whom Moses led out of the country of Egypt.
17 With whom was God angry for forty years? He was angry with the people who had done wrong. And they died in the desert.
18 Who were the people God said would never go into his resting place? They were the people who would not listen to him.
19 So then, we see that they could not go in because they did not believe him.
Hebrews 3
King James Version
3 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Ebrei 3
La Nuova Diodati
3 Perciò, fratelli santi, che siete partecipi della celeste vocazione, considerate l'apostolo e il sommo sacerdote della nostra confessione di fede, Gesú Cristo,
2 che è fedele a colui che lo ha costituito, come lo fu anche Mosé in tutta la sua casa.
3 Infatti Gesú è stato ritenuto degno di una gloria tanto piú grande di quella di Mosé, quanto maggior gloria ha colui che ha fabbricato una casa della casa stessa.
4 Ora ogni casa è costruita da qualcuno, ma colui che ha fatto tutte le cose è Dio
5 E Mosé fu veramente fedele nella casa di Dio come servo, per testimoniare delle cose che dovevano essere dette,
6 ma Cristo, come Figlio, lo è sopra la propria casa e la sua casa siamo noi, se riteniamo ferma fino alla fine la franchezza e il vanto della speranza.
7 Perciò, come dice lo Spirito Santo: «Oggi, se udite la sua voce,
8 non indurite i vostri cuori come nella provocazione, nel giorno della tentazione nel deserto,
9 dove i vostri padri mi tentarono mettendomi alla prova, pur avendo visto per quarant'anni le mie opere.
10 Perciò mi sdegnai con quella generazione e dissi: Errano sempre col cuore e non hanno conosciuto le mie vie;
11 cosí giurai nella mia ira: Non entreranno nel mio riposo».
12 State attenti, fratelli, che talora non vi sia in alcuno di voi un malvagio cuore incredulo, che si allontani dal Dio vivente,
13 ma esortatevi a vicenda ogni giorno, finché si dice: Oggi perché nessuno di voi sia indurito per l'inganno del peccato.
14 Noi infatti siamo divenuti partecipi di Cristo, a condizione che riteniamo ferma fino alla fine la fiducia che avevamo al principio,
15 mentre ci è detto: «Oggi, se udite la sua voce, non indurite i vostri cuori come nella provocazione».
16 Chi furono infatti quelli che, avendola udita, lo provocarono? Non furono tutti quelli che erano usciti dall'Egitto per mezzo di Mosé?
17 Ora chi furono coloro coi quali si sdegnò per quarant'anni? Non furono coloro che peccarono, i cui cadaveri caddero nel deserto?
18 E a chi giurò che non sarebbero entrati nel suo riposo, se non a quelli che furono disubbidienti?
19 Or noi vediamo che non vi poterono entrare per l'incredulità.
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