Hebrews 3

Modern English Version

Jesus Superior to Moses

3 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers in a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Jesus Christ, ² who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses was faithful in all His house. ³ For the One was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, in that He who builds the house has more honor than the house itself. ⁴ For every house is built by someone, but the One who builds all things is God. ⁵ Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, testifying about those things that were to be spoken later. ⁶ But Christ is faithful over God’s house as a Son, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of our hope firm to the end.

A Rest for God’s People

⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

¹² Be attentive, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, and you depart from the living God. ¹³ But exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴ For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence firmly to the end, ¹⁵ while it is said:

¹⁶ For who were they who heard and rebelled? Was it not all of those who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? ¹⁷ And with whom was He grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who disobeyed? ¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.