Our Apostle and High Priest

Therefore, holy brothers and companions in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession;(A) He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all God’s household. For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house. Now every house is built by someone, but the One who built everything is God.(B) Moses was faithful as a servant(C) in all God’s household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future. But Christ was faithful as a Son over His household. And we are that household if we hold on to the courage and the confidence of our hope.[a](D)

Warning against Unbelief

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
and saw My works 10 for 40 years.
Therefore I was provoked with that generation
and said, “They always go astray in their hearts,
and they have not known My ways.”
11 So I swore in My anger,
“They will not enter My rest.”(E)[b]

12 Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God. 13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.(F) 14 For we have become companions of the Messiah if we hold firmly until the end the reality[c] that we had at the start.(G) 15 As it is said:

Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.(H)[d]

16 For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it really all who came out of Egypt under Moses?(I) 17 And who was He provoked with for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?(J) 18 And who did He swear to that they would not enter His rest, if not those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 3:6 Other mss add firm to the end
  2. Hebrews 3:11 Ps 95:7-11
  3. Hebrews 3:14 Or confidence
  4. Hebrews 3:15 Ps 95:7-8

耶穌比摩西更配得榮耀

同蒙天召的聖潔弟兄啊,你們應當思想我們所認為使者、為大祭司的耶穌。 他為那設立他的盡忠,如同摩西在神的全家盡忠一樣。 他比摩西算是更配多得榮耀,好像建造房屋的比房屋更尊榮。 因為房屋都必有人建造,但建造萬物的就是神。 摩西為僕人,在神的全家誠然盡忠,為要證明將來必傳說的事; 但基督為兒子,治理神的家。我們若將可誇的盼望和膽量堅持到底,便是他的家了。

當警戒硬心

聖靈有話說:「你們今日若聽他的話, 就不可硬著心,像在曠野惹他發怒、試探他的時候一樣。 在那裡,你們的祖宗試我探我,並且觀看我的作為有四十年之久。 10 所以,我厭煩那世代的人,說:『他們心裡常常迷糊,竟不曉得我的作為。』 11 我就在怒中起誓說:『他們斷不可進入我的安息。』」 12 弟兄們,你們要謹慎,免得你們中間或有人存著不信的惡心,把永生神離棄了。 13 總要趁著還有今日,天天彼此相勸,免得你們中間有人被罪迷惑,心裡就剛硬了。 14 我們若將起初確實的信心堅持到底,就在基督裡有份了。 15 經上說:「你們今日若聽他的話,就不可硬著心,像惹他發怒的日子一樣。」

不信之人不能享受安息

16 那時聽見他話惹他發怒的是誰呢?豈不是跟著摩西埃及出來的眾人嗎? 17 神四十年之久又厭煩誰呢?豈不是那些犯罪屍首倒在曠野的人嗎? 18 又向誰起誓,不容他們進入他的安息呢?豈不是向那些不信從的人嗎? 19 這樣看來,他們不能進入安息是因為不信的緣故了。

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