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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/hebrews/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jesus Greater Than Moses</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore, holy brothers,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or brothers and sisters; also verse 12">a</a></sup></span> you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek his; also verses 5, 6">b</a></sup></span> house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more 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 the builder of all things is God.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts insert firm to the end">c</a></sup></span></p> <p class="heading">A Rest for the People of God</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“Today, if you hear his voice,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,</span><br /><span class="indent">on the day of testing in the wilderness,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">where your fathers put me to the test</span><br /><span class="indent">and saw my works for forty years.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore I was provoked with that generation,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;</span><br /><span class="indent">they have not known my ways.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">As I swore in my wrath,</span><br /><span class="indent">‘They shall not enter my rest.’”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As it is said,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“Today, if you hear his voice,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">brothers</span> and sisters</i>; also verse 12<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Greek <i>his</i>; also verses 5, 6<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Some manuscripts insert <i>firm to the end</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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