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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 NIV</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" /></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="../">NIV</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 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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/hebrews/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jesus Greater Than Moses</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Num. 12:7">a</a></sup></span> bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Warning Against Unbelief</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So, as the Holy Spirit says:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“Today, if you hear his voice,</p> <p class="line2"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>do not harden your hearts</p><p class="line1">as you did in the rebellion,</p><p class="line2">during the time of testing in the wilderness,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>where your ancestors tested and tried me,</p><p class="line2">though for forty years they saw what I did.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>That is why I was angry with that generation;</p><p class="line2">I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,</p><p class="line2">and they have not known my ways.’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So I declared on oath in my anger,</p><p class="line2">‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Psalm 95:7-11">b</a></sup></span> </p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As has just been said:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“Today, if you hear his voice,</p><p class="line2">do not harden your hearts</p><p class="line2">as you did in the rebellion.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Psalm 95:7,8">c</a></sup></span> </p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">Num. 12:7</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">Psalm 95:7-11</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Psalm 95:7,8</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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