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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Hebrews 3 BSB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hebrews/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//hebrews/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BSB</a> > Hebrews 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hebrews/2.htm" title="Hebrews 2">◄</a> Hebrews 3 <a href="../hebrews/4.htm" title="Hebrews 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Berean Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/hebrews/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> testifying to what would be spoken later. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> to our confidence and the hope of which we boast. <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Do Not Harden Your Hearts<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../psalms/95.htm">Psalm 95:1–11</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: <p class="indent1stline">“Today, if you hear His voice, <A name="9"></a><p class="indent2"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>do not harden your hearts, <p class="indent1"> as you did in the rebellion, <p class="indent2"> in the day of testing in the wilderness, <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>where your fathers tested and tried Me, <p class="indent2"> and for forty years saw My works. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore I was angry with that generation, <p class="indent2"> and I said, <p class="indent1">‘Their hearts are always going astray, <p class="indent2"> and they have not known My ways.’ <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So I swore on oath in My anger, <p class="indent2">‘They shall never enter My rest.’”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> <A name="13"></a><p class="hdg">The Peril of Unbelief<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As it has been said: <p class="indent1stline">“Today, if you hear His voice, <p class="indent2"> do not harden your hearts, <p class="indent1"> as you did in the rebellion.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Literally <i>just as Moses in all His house</i>; SBL <i>just as Moses in His house</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <a href="../numbers/12.htm#7">Numbers 12:7</a><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> NE, WH, BYZ, and TR include <i>to the end</i>.<br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <a href="../psalms/95.htm#7">Psalm 95:7</a>–11 (see also LXX)<br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <a href="../psalms/95.htm#7">Psalm 95:7</a>–8<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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