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

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

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.

For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

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.

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

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.

¶ Se poutèt sa, frè m' yo, nou menm k'ap viv apa pou Bondye, nou menm Bondye te rele pou antre ansanm nan syèl la, fikse je nou sou Jezi, moun Bondye te voye pou sèvi nou granprèt nan konfyans nou genyen an.

Paske li pa t' twonpe Bondye ki te chwazi l' pou travay sa a. Li fè travay li byen tankou Moyiz ki te fè tout travay li byen nan kay Bondye a.

Moun ki bati yon kay resevwa plis lwanj pase kay la. Konsa tou, Jezi resevwa yon pi gwo lwanj pase Moyiz.

Chak kay gen yon moun ki bati li. Men, se Bondye ki fè tout bagay.

Moyiz te fè travay li byen nan tout kò kay Bondye a. Li te yon senp sèvitè ki te la pou pale sou bagay Bondye tapral di pita.

Men, Jezikri te fè travay li tankou yon pitit Bondye te mete chèf kay li. Se nou menm ki kay Bondye a, depi nou pa janm dekouraje, depi nou pa janm pèdi konfyans, depi nou pa janm wont sa n'ap tann lan.

¶ Se poutèt sa, jan Sentespri te di l' la: Si nou tande vwa Bondye jòdi a,

pa kenbe tèt ak li, menm jan zansèt nou yo te fè l', lè yo te chache kont ak Bondye a, tankou lè, nan dezè a, yo te vle wè jouk ki bò Bondye ye ak yo.

Lè sa a, zansèt nou yo te tante m', yo te sonde m' atout yo te deja wè tou sa m' t'ap fè depi karantan.

10 Se sak fè, mwen te fache sou moun sa yo. Mwen te di: Moun sa yo toujou ap fè move lide nan tèt yo. Yo derefize obeyi kòmandman m' yo.

11 Mwen te fè kòlè, mwen te fè sèman: Yo pa janm mete pye yo kote pou yo poze kò yo ansanm ak mwen an.

12 Frè m' yo, atansyon pou okenn nan nou pa rive gen move santiman nan kè l' ki pou fè l' pèdi konfyans nan Bondye, pou lè sa a, li pa vire do bay Bondye vivan an.

13 Okontrè, chak jou, se pou nou yonn ankouraje lòt toutotan n'ap viv nan epòk Liv la rele jòdi a. Piga nou yonn kite peche detounen nou, pou lè sa a nou pa rive nan kenbe tèt ak Bondye.

14 Paske, nou se moun k'ap mache ansanm ak Kris la, depi nou kenbe fèm nan konfyans nou te genyen depi nan konmansman an jouk sa kaba.

15 Men sa ki ekri nan Liv la: Si nou tande vwa Bondye jòdi a, pa kenbe tèt ak li, tankou lè nou te chache kont ak Bondye a.

16 Kilès sa yo ki te tande vwa Bondye men ki apre sa te chache kont ak li? Se tout moun Moyiz te fè soti nan peyi Lejip la.

17 Sou ki moun Bondye te fè kòlè pandan karantan an? Se sou moun ki te fè peche yo. Tout moun sa yo tonbe, yo mouri nan dezè a.

18 Lè Bondye te fè sèman sa a, kilès li t'ap pale? Li t'ap pale sou moun ki te chache kont ak li yo.

19 Nou wè vre, yo yonn pa t' kapab mete pye yo kote sa a, paske yo pa t' gen konfyans.