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,

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,

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.