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Hebrews 3

Having named Jesus high priest, the writer now sets him beside Moses — the most honored figure in Israel's memory. Both were faithful in God's house, but Moses served as a servant within the house while Christ rules as a Son over it, and the builder outranks the building. The second half turns to Psalm 95, replaying the wilderness rebellion where a whole generation, hardened in heart, was barred from God's rest. The repeated word is "today": the warning is for the present hearer, not just the ancient one.

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Hebrews 3 (WEB)
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    Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

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

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    For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.

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    For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

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    Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

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    but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

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    Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

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    don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

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    where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

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    Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

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    As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

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    Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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    but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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    For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

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    while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

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    For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

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    With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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    To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

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    We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

The danger of an unbelieving heart

Verse 12 names the threat precisely: an evil heart of unbelief that falls away from the living God. The remedy in verse 13 is communal — exhort one another daily while it is still called "today," before sin's deceit hardens anyone. The chapter ends bluntly: that generation could not enter because of unbelief, the exact failure chapter 4 will urge readers to avoid.

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